PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 61: Social Dilemma, Human Development Index, World Values Survey

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO241
• Professor: Nash, Kyle

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Another social dilemma is illustrated by the commons dilemma. If people take as much as they want of a limited resource, nothing will be left for anyone. This is evident in concerns about deforestation, pollution, over consumption of resources by richer nations, etc. Related social dilemma seen with the public good dilemma. Individuals expected to contribute to common pool (e. g. taxes, donating blood, etc) but if no one gives, services cannot be provided. Often reward focused insensitive to negative outcomes. Related to approach phenomena (lerner & keltner, 2001; maner & gerend, 2007; platt & huettel, 2008) It is assumed that the means of all the variables are equal to zero that is, that the variables are expressed in deviation scores. Also, it is assumed that and are uncorrelated, and that b is nonsingular. The measurement model specifies the relations between unobserved and observed, or latent and manifest, variables. Control condition easy stats : describe the usefulness of statistics .