Conference paper
Cooperative behaviour in a prisoners dilemma – a terror management perspective
SELF Research Centre University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus
Proceedings of the 4th International Biennial SELF Research Conference: Self-Concept , Motivation, Social and Personal Identity for the 21st Century (Ann Arbor, USA., 23/07/2006–26/07/2006)
2007
Abstract
This paper examines the terror management function of cooperative behaviour within a single-play Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD). Using 312 introductory psychology students, mortality salience significantly increased the cooperative behaviour of prosocial participants, while there was a non-significant difference in cooperative behaviour for individualistic and competitive participants. Changes in cooperative behaviour were not influenced by the ingroup or outgroup status of the other player. These findings identify cooperative behaviour for prosocials as an important behaviour that serves a terror management function.
Details
- Title
- Cooperative behaviour in a prisoners dilemma – a terror management perspective
- Authors/Creators
- K. Tremayne (Author/Creator)G.J. Curtis (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- Proceedings of the 4th International Biennial SELF Research Conference: Self-Concept , Motivation, Social and Personal Identity for the 21st Century (Ann Arbor, USA., 23/07/2006–26/07/2006)
- Publisher
- SELF Research Centre University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus
- Identifiers
- 991005541151007891
- Copyright
- The authors
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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