Interdependent situations are pervasive in human life. In these situations, it is essential to
form expectations about the others' behaviour to adapt one's own behaviour to increase …

Social psychologists have long recognized that people fundamentally differ with respect to
their social value orientation (SVO), that is, self‐regarding versus other regarding …

This article reports a meta-analysis of 82 studies assessing the relationship between social
value orientation (SVO) and cooperation in social dilemmas. A significant and small to …

Two studies examined the choice differences between prosocials and proselfs by examining
the influence of norms of social responsibility and reciprocity. In line with the integrative …

Previous work has demonstrated that Social Value Orientation (SVO) is related to
cooperative behavior in social dilemmas. However, little is known concerning the underlying …

Two studies investigated how values affect competitive versus cooperative behavior. Each
Study presented a new social‐dilemma game, in which participants' interpretations of the …

Investigating whether benevolent or universalism value types are more closely related to
social value orientations, a survey of 190 undergraduates elicited value priorities, social …

Cooperation is essential for the success of societies and there is an ongoing debate whether
individuals have therefore developed a general spontaneous tendency to cooperate or not …

Relying on the framework provided by Schwartz's theory of personal values, we investigated
whether values can help explain prosocial behaviour. We first distinguished value …

Broadly defined, social dilemmas involve a conflict between immediate self-interest and
longer-term collective interests. These are challenging situations because acting in one's …