Social rewards in the volunteer’s dilemma in everyday life
Social rewards in the volunteer’s dilemma in everyday life
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志愿者日常生活困境中的社会奖励
DOI：
10.1111/ajsp.12472
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Karasawa Kaori
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作者：
Tham Yukari Jessica;Hashimoto Takaaki;Karasawa Kaori
在日常生活中，我们经常面临“志愿者困境（VoD）”-一种群体情况，其中一个成员必须承担提供公共物品的成本。在VoD中，一个群体的成员可能会等待彼此自愿，因此，该群体可能无法实现公共利益。以前的研究已经检查了这种失败的概率，发现它低于理论预期。这种差异可能是因为只有材料（例如，金钱）而不是社会奖励（例如，在理论预期中考虑了有利的评价）。为了调查人们是否以及如何在日常生活中（特别是在工作环境中）获得社会奖励或受到他人的好评，我们进行了一项基于场景的实验（N= 582）。结果表明，人们在自愿参与时比不自愿参与时被评价为更有道德和能力。而且，当所有其他小组成员都回避，而评估者也愿意自愿时，情况尤其如此。这些发现有助于我们目前的理解，人们认为志愿者和逃避在视频点播。它们还影响人们在这种情况下为他们的群体承担成本的动机。
In everyday life, we often face a “volunteer’s dilemma (VoD)”—a group situation in which one member has to incur the cost of providing a public good. In the VoD, members of a group may wait for each other to volunteer, and thus, the group may fail to achieve the public good. Previous research has examined the probability of this failure and found that it was lower than theoretically expected. This discrepancy may have been because only material (e.g., money) and not social rewards (e.g., favourable evaluations) were considered in the theoretical expectations. To investigate whether and how people gain social rewards or are evaluated favourably by others in the VoD in everyday life (specifically in workplace contexts), we conducted a scenario‐based experiment (N= 582). The results showed that people were evaluated as more moral and competent when they volunteered than when they did not. Furthermore, this was the case especially when all the other group members shirked and when the evaluator was also willing to volunteer. These findings contribute to our current understanding of the way people perceive volunteers and shirkers in the VoD. They also have an implication on people’s motivation to incur a cost for their group in such a situation.