Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Are Patient People More Cooperative? A Study of the Relationship between Time Preferences and Cooperation in Vietnam

DRMS 博士论文研究：患者是否更加合作？

• 批准号: 0848340
• 负责人: Robert Boyd
• 金额: $ 0.48万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0848340&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Patient

Patience and cooperativeness play critical roles in determining a society's level of collective wellbeing, yet scientists do not know what determines these traits or how exactly they are related to one another. Some preliminary laboratory research among Western undergraduate students suggests that patience and cooperativeness are correlated at the individual level. However, this correlation may be specific to Western university-trained students. Moreover, it may be an artifact of the methodology used to assess patience and cooperativeness or the apparent relationship between patience and cooperativeness may be due to a correlation with a third variable, such as trust.In this Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant research, the co PI will conduct studies to explore the generality and origins of the patience / cooperativeness correlation. To address the "generality" question, the research will involve studying patience and cooperativeness among a broad sample of northern and southern Vietnamese (i.e., non-western) adults. More extensive assessment methodology and collection of demographic data will help address whether the correlation is real or specious. Findings from this research will be useful to government and non-government agencies that are involved in development projects in Vietnam, by examining some of the key ingredients of "social capital" in Vietnam.

耐心和合作在决定一个社会的集体福祉水平方面发挥着关键作用，但科学家们不知道是什么决定了这些特征，也不知道它们之间到底有什么关系。一些在西方大学生中进行的初步实验室研究表明，耐心和合作精神在个人层面上是相关的。然而，这种相关性可能是西方大学培养的学生所特有的。 此外，它可能是用于评估耐心和合作性的方法的人工制品，或者耐心和合作性之间的明显关系可能是由于与第三个变量的相关性，例如信任。在这项博士论文改进资助研究中，合作PI将进行研究，以探索耐心/合作性相关性的一般性和起源。 为了解决“一般性”问题，研究将涉及研究北方和南方越南人（即，非西方人。 更广泛的评估方法和收集人口数据将有助于确定这种相关性是真实的还是似是而非的。通过研究越南“社会资本”的一些关键要素，这项研究的结果将对参与越南发展项目的政府和非政府机构有用。