PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Meta-Analysis, Psy, George Orwell

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Fulmer

Document Summary

Although all of us struggle with social dilemmas, people differ in their own tendencies toward cooperation and competition. One individual difference concerns people"s social value orientations. People with a prosocial, cooperative orientation seek to maximize joint gains; those with an individualist orientation seek to maximize their own gain; those with a competitive orientation seek to maximize their own gain relative to that of others. People with a cooperative orientation are less likely to behave in a competitive, resource- consuming fashion than are people with individualistic or competitive orientations. Although women often are stereotypically thought to be more cooperative and less individualistic than men, the evidence does not support this assumption. In a meta-analysis exploring sex differences in cooperation levels, daniel balliet found no evidence for sex differences in overall levels of cooperation. However, they did find that men tend to be more cooperative when interacting with other men, whereas women cooperate less when working with other women.