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ACCOUNTABILITY AND COOPERATION IN SOCIAL DILEMMAS: THE INFLUENCE OF OTHERS’
REPUTATIONAL CONCERNS
* David De Cremer1 &
* Müriel Barker1
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ABSTRACT
The present study examined the assumption that non-anonymous choices in social
dilemmas (i.e., choices for which one is accountable) may influence cooperation,
but only to the extent that decision-makers believe that the others will
evaluate non-cooperation negatively. Based on a recent review by Kerr (1999), it
was expected that under conditions of accountability, decision-makers would
cooperate more when they believed that the others within the group were also
concerned about their social reputation and therefore were aware of the social
norm of cooperation within social dilemmas. As a consequence, it could be
expected that non-cooperation by oneself would be evaluated negatively by those
others since they seemed to be aware of what ought to be done in a social
dilemma (i.e., the norm of cooperation). Results confirmed these predictions
and, in addition, also showed that greater willingness to cooperate was
associated with stronger feelings of collective concern. The findings are
discussed in terms of recent literature on anonymity effects in social dilemmas.
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1. Alken, L. S., & West, S. G. (1991). Multiple regression: Testing and
interpreting interactions. New York: Sage.
Google Scholar
2. Aquino, K., Steisel, V., & Kay, A. (1992). The effects of resource
distribution, voice, and decision framing on the provision of public goods.
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 36, 665–687.
Article Google Scholar
3. Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D.A. (1986). The moderator-mediator distinction in
social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical
considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51,
1173–1182.
Article PubMed Google Scholar
4. Baumeister, R. F. (1982). A self-presentational view of social phenomena.
Psychological Bulletin, 91, 3–26.
Article Google Scholar
5. Baumeister, R. F. (1993). Self-esteem: The puzzle of low self-regard.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Google Scholar
6. Baumeister, R. F., & Hutton, D. G. (1987). Self-presentation theory:
Self-construction and audience pleading. In B. Mullen, and G. R. Goethals
(Eds.), Theories of group behavior. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Google Scholar
7. Cialdini, R. B., Kallgren, C. A., & Reno, R. R. (1991). A focus theory of
normative conduct. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 24, 201–234.
Article Google Scholar
8. Dawes, R. M. (1980). Social dilemmas. Annual Review of Psychology, 31,
169–193.
Article Google Scholar
9. Darley, J., & Latané, B. (1968). Bystander intervention in emergence:
Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
8, 377–383.
Article PubMed Google Scholar
10. De Cremer, D., Snyder, M., & Dewitte, S. (2001). The less I trust, the less
I contribute (or not?): Effects of trust, accountability and
self-monitoring in social dilemmas. European Journal of Social Psychology,
31, 93–107.
Article Google Scholar
11. De Cremer, D., & Van Dijk, E. (2002). Reactions to group success and
failure as a function of group identification: A test of the
goal-transformation hypothesis in social dilemmas. Journal of Experimental
Social Psychology, 38, 435–442.
Article Google Scholar
12. De Cremer, D., & Van Vugt, M. (1999). Social identification effects in
social dilemmas: A transformation of motives. European Journal of Social
Psychology, 29, 871–893.
Article Google Scholar
13. Gächter, S., & Fehr, E. (1999). Collective action as a social exchange.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 39, 341–369.
Article Google Scholar
14. Jerdee, T. H., & Rosen, B. (1974). Effects of opportunity to communicate
and visibility of individual decisions on behavior in the common interest.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 59, 712–716.
Article Google Scholar
15. Kerr, N. L. (1989). Illusions of efficacy: The effects of group size on
perceived efficacy in social dilemmas. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 25, 287–313.
Article Google Scholar
16. Kerr, N. L. (1995). Norms in social dilemmas. In D. Schroeder (Ed.), Social
dilemmas: Perspectives on individuals and groups (pp. 31–48). Westport, CT:
Praeger.
Google Scholar
17. Kerr, N. L. (1996). “Does my contribution really matter?”: Efficacy in
social dilemmas, European Review of Social Psychology, 7, 209–240.
Article Google Scholar
18. Kerr, N. L. (1999). Anonymity and social control in social dilemmas. In M.
Foddy, M. Smithson, S. Schneider, & M. Hogg (Eds.), Resolving social
dilemmas (pp. 103–118). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Google Scholar
19. Komorita, S. S., & Parks, C. D. (1994). Social dilemmas. Dubuque, IA: Brown
& Benchmark.
Google Scholar
20. Lerner, J. S., & Tetlock, P. E. (1999). Accounting for the effects of
accountability. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 255–275.
Article PubMed Google Scholar
21. Liebrand, W. B. G. (1984). The effect of social motives, communication and
group size on behaviour in a n-person multi-stage mixed-motive game.
European Journal of Social Psychology, 14, 239–264.
Article Google Scholar
22. Luce, R. D., & Raiffa, H. (1957). Games and decisions: Introduction and
critical survey. London: John Wiley and Sons.
Google Scholar
23. Milinski, M., Semmann, D., & Krambeck, H-J. (2002). Reputation helps solve
the “tragedy of the commons”. Nature, 415, 424–426.
Article PubMed Google Scholar
24. Murnighan, J. K., & Roth, A. E. R. (1983). Expecting continued play in
prisoner's dilemma games: A test of several models. Journal of Conflict
Resolution, 27, 279–300.
Article Google Scholar
25. Olson, M. (1965). The logic of collective action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Google Scholar
26. Pillutla, M. M., & Chen, X-P. (1999). Social norms and cooperation in
social dilemmas: The effects of context and feedback. Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 78, 81–103.
Article PubMed Google Scholar
27. Prentice-Dunn, S., & Rogers, R. W. (1982). Effects of public and private
self-awareness deindividuation and aggression. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 43, 503–513.
Article Google Scholar
28. Tetlock, P. E. (1985). Accountability: The neglected social context of
judgment and choice. In B. M. Staw, and L. L. Cummings (Eds.), Research in
organizational behavior. Greenwich, CT: JAI.
Google Scholar
29. Tetlock, P. E. (1992). The impact of accountability on judgment and choice:
Toward a social contingency model. Advances in Experimental Social
Psychology, 25, 331–376.
Google Scholar
30. Tyler, T. R., & Lind, E. A. (1992). A relational model of authority in
groups. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol.
25, pp. 115–191). New York: Academic Press.
Google Scholar
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