PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Overconsumption

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Jennifer Wessel

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Define conflict: a perceived incompatibility of actions or goals. Ex: selena wants to hire more people, lauren wants to cut spending. Situation in which self-interested pursuits by conflicting parties leads to a loss of rewards for both parties (self-interested behavior backfiring) Classic prisoner"s dilemma scenario: a mutually-dependent situation in which individual outcomes depend on both the choices of the individual and another (or others), two people separated, make some choice individually, outcomes depend on both choices. Situation: the experimenter has to give to you and a classmate you can ask for an even split, or for all of the money. In the prisoner"s dilemma, people will be less likely to cooperate if: Both defect (try to get all of the money): : they do not get to communicate (no trust, they have been hurt before. Describe a tragedy of the commons scenario: a mutually-dependent situation in which individual over-consumption of resources has a negative impact on all.