Strategic Self-Regulation in Groups: Collective Implementation Intentions Help Cooperate When Cooperation Is Called for

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Authors

  • J. Lukas Thürmer
  • Frank Wieber
  • Peter M. Gollwitzer

Groups need contributions that are personally costly to their members. Such cooperation is only adaptive when others cooperate as well, as unconditional cooperation may incur high costs to the individual. We argue that individuals can use We-if-then plans (collective implementation intentions, cIIs) to regulate their group-directed behavior strategically, helping them to cooperate selectively with group members in the situation planned for. In line with this prediction, a cII to consider group earnings increased cooperative decisions in a prisoners’ dilemma game when playing against another group member but not when playing against a stranger (i.e., non-group member). Moreover, cIIs to cooperate in the prisoners’ dilemma game did not increase cooperation in a structurally similar investment game that participants had not planned for. We discuss the role of collective planning in solving social dilemmas.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer561388
ZeitschriftFrontiers in Psychology
Jahrgang11
Anzahl der Seiten11
ISSN1664-1078
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 24.11.2020

Bibliographische Notiz

This research was supported by the University of Konstanz YSF and AFF funding schemes.

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