Social Dilemmas

Abstract

This chapter gives a brief overview of different types of social dilemmas. It describes motives that are important for choices in social dilemmas. Social dilemmas are situations in which individual interests are in conflict with collective interests. A resource dilemma arises when multiple individuals share a limited resource with free access, where each group member decides how much to withdraw from the common resource. In a public good dilemma the common goods depends on individual contributions but is accessible to all group members. Greed, efficiency, and fairness are three basic motives that promote either cooperation or defection. The lion's share of all social dilemma research has been concerned with the crucial question of what motivates people to act more (un)selfishly. The chapter finally discusses factors influencing people's choices to act in their self-interest or in the interest of the collective.

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