PSYCH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Capital

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 217
• Professor: Brian Lickel

Document Summary

Human social coordinaion requires a lot of trust. We ask people for investments all the ime: Because most people are cooperaive, it is smart to be cooperaive to increase our join rewards. Because most people are cooperaive, i can exploit that trust for my gain. We"re cooperaive but only to help ourselves as well and to beneit from it (oten not even a conscious thing) A group of college and community paricipants kept track of their (10 min or longer) interacions for a week. Recorded at the end of the day the nature of the interacion and any lies they told during the interacion.