Value Orientations and Cooperation: Exploring the Value-Behavior Link

拟议的项目是第六轮世界价值观调查(WVS)的德国部分。WVS调查跨国家和内部社会在社会、经济和政治价值观以及世界范围内的文化变化方面的差异。在五轮WVS中，全球近百个社会进行了调查，使WVS成为使用最广泛的跨国比较调查项目。为了重复社会监控的目的，本应用程序的目标是在德国推广WVS系列，延续第五届WVS的见解。除了延续一个重要的时间序列外，德国第六届WVS将新的重点放在了价值观与合作之间的关系上。自愿合作是个性化现代社会运作的关键问题，各种理论表明，价值观塑造合作。然而，很少有人分析价值观和合作之间的联系。为了做到这一点，需要将调查数据与观测数据联系起来。为此，第六轮WVS邀请受访者参与一个在行为经济学中尝试和测试的标准合作游戏的网络版。其目的是找出在德国和其他后工业社会兴起的某些价值观是如何影响合作的，以及哪些外部条件有助于将这些价值观转化为合作。

The proposed project constitutes the German part of round six of the World Values Surveys (WVS). The WVS investigates cross-national and inner-societal differences in social, economic and political values as well as cultural change worldwide. In five rounds of the WVS, almost a hundred societies around the globe have been surveyed, making the WVS the most widely used cross-national comparative survey project. For the purpose of repeated social monitoring, this application aims to pursue the WVS-series in Germany, extending the insights from the fifth WVS. Apart from continuing an important time series, the sixth WVS in Germany puts a new focus on the relationship between values and cooperation. Voluntary cooperation is a key issue for the functioning of individualized modern societies and various theories suggest that values shape cooperation. Yet, the connection between values and cooperation is rarely analyzed. In order to do so, one needs to link survey data with observational data. For this reason, the sixth round of the WVS invites respondents to participate in an online version of a standard cooperation game that has been tried and tested in behavioral economics. The aim is to find out how certain values that have been on the rise in Germany and other postindustrial societies affect cooperation and what external conditions ease the translation of these values into cooperation.