PSYCH C162 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Public Goods Game, Prosocial Behavior, Social Dilemma
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In the empirical article, rand and his colleagues assessed whether people are intuitively cooperative and, if such is the case, whether re ection attenuates this cooperative social re ex. Given the wide use of processing speed as a means of distinguishing intuitive behavior from re ective behavior, the researchers hypothesized that people act relatively more cooperatively when forced to make quick, intuitive decisions. Two correlational studies were executed to examine this hypothesis. In the rst study, international participants recruited from. As predicted, participants induced to make fast decisions made higher contributions than participants induced to make slow ones, which suggests a relationship between intuition and cooperation. Another correlational study analyzed the data of previous social dilemma experiments that involved timed responses and arrived at the same relationship. In subsequent experimental studies, the researchers utilized the same two conditions as the above correlational studies, with the addition of an unconstrained control condition.
