Cooperation and Culture: Students From China and the United States in a Prisoner's Dilemma
Cooperation and Culture: Students From China and the United States in a Prisoner's Dilemma
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DOI：
10.1177/106939719803200203
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发表时间：
1998-05
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
M. Hemesath;Xun Pomponio
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作者：
M. Hemesath;Xun Pomponio
那些对比较经济体系感兴趣的人面临的一个重要问题是，市场经济模型的基本假设在非市场环境中的适用性如何。个体的经济行为在不同的文化中有差异吗？作者将中国本科生和美国大学的学生聚集在一起，玩经典的囚徒困境游戏。面对金钱的回报，每个学生都和不同的伙伴玩了几次这个游戏。一个概率分析是用来检查是什么影响了学生的决定，合作或缺陷，在每个游戏。作者发现，在囚徒困境实验中，美国学生比中国学生表现得更自私，更不合作。他们还发现，当把在美国学习的外国学生和美国学生放在一起，创造出一个在各种不同市场经济中长大的学生样本时，这些学生的合作态度也比中国学生差。
An important question facing those interested in comparative eco nomic systems is how well the assumptions underlying market economic models fit in nonmarket contexts. Does individual eco nomic behavior vary across cultures? The authors brought together Chinese undergraduates and students from an American college to play the classic prisoner's dilemma game. Facing monetary payoffs, each student played the game several times with different partners. A probit analysis is used to examine what influenced the students' decisions to cooperate or defect in each game. The authors found that American students behaved in a more self-interested, less cooperative manner than the Chinese students did in the prisoner's dilemma experiment. They also found that when foreign students studying in the United States are included with the American students to create a sample of students who grew up in a variety of different market economies, these students also behaved in a less cooperative manner than their Chinese counterparts.