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Did Cooperation Among Strangers Decline in the United States? A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Social Dilemmas (1956-2017) | |
Yuan, Mingliang1,2; Spadaro, Giuliana3; Jin, Shuxian3; Wu, Junhui4,5; Kou, Yu2; Van Lange, Paul A. M.3; Balliet, Daniel3 | |
第一作者 | Mingliang Yuan |
心理所单位排序 | 4 |
摘要 | Public Significance Statement This meta-analysis reveals that Americans' level of cooperation among strangers has increased over the 61-year period from 1956 to 2017. This finding challenges the idea that social capital and norms of cooperation have declined in the American society over time. Changes in American society support greater cooperation among strangers, which could underlie an ability for Americans to cooperate to solve present and future challenges (e.g., solutions to climate change, pandemics, and sustainable resource consumption). Cooperation among strangers has been hypothesized to have declined in the United States over the past several decades, an alarming trend that has potential far-reaching societal consequences. To date, most research that supports a decline in cooperation has relied on self-report measures or archival data. Here, we utilize the history of experimental research on cooperation in situations involving conflicting interests (i.e., social dilemmas). We meta-analyzed 511 studies conducted between 1956 and 2017 with 660 unique samples and effect sizes involving 63,342 participants to test whether the average level of cooperation observed in these studies had declined over time. We found no evidence for a decline in cooperation over the 61-year period. Instead, we found a slight increase in cooperation over time. In addition, some societal indicators (e.g., income inequality, societal wealth, urbanization level, and percentage of people living alone) measured 10 to 5 years prior to measures of cooperation were found to be positively associated with cooperation, suggesting that they may be potential societal underpinnings of increases in cooperation. These findings challenge the idea that social capital and civic cooperation among strangers have declined in the United States over time, and we offer directions for future research to understand causes of an increase in cooperation. |
关键词 | cooperation social capital social dilemmas meta-analysis time |
2022-03-01 | |
语种 | 英语 |
DOI | 10.1037/bul0000363 |
发表期刊 | PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN |
ISSN | 0033-2909 |
卷号 | 148期号:3-4页码:129-157 |
期刊论文类型 | 实证研究 |
收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI |
资助项目 | European Research Council[635356] ; Peace and Conflict Studies at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam ; China Scholarship Council[201806040053] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31971011] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71901028] ; Ministry of Education Project of Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Science at Universities[16JJD880007] |
出版者 | AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC |
WOS关键词 | INTERINDIVIDUAL-INTERGROUP DISCONTINUITY ; INDIVIDUAL-GROUP DISCONTINUITY ; INFORMATION-PROCESSING COMPLEXITY ; AMERICAN-COLLEGE STUDENTS ; PUBLIC-GOODS EXPERIMENTS ; EMPATHY-INDUCED ALTRUISM ; PRISONERS-DILEMMA ; SEX-DIFFERENCES ; VALUE ORIENTATION ; DECISION-MAKING |
WOS研究方向 | Psychology |
WOS类目 | Psychology ; Psychology, Multidisciplinary |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000879369600002 |
WOS分区 | Q1 |
资助机构 | European Research Council ; Peace and Conflict Studies at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam ; China Scholarship Council ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Ministry of Education Project of Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Science at Universities |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/44002 |
专题 | 中国科学院行为科学重点实验室 |
通讯作者 | Kou, Yu |
作者单位 | 1.Anhui Agr Univ, Sch Humanities & Social Sci, Dept Psychol, Hefei, Peoples R China 2.Beijing Normal Univ, Natl Demonstrat Ctr Expt Psychol Educ, Inst Dev Psychol, Beijing Key Lab Appl Expt Psychol, 19 Xinjiekouwai St, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China 3.Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Dept Expt & Appl Psychol, Inst Brain & Behav Amsterdam IBBA, Amsterdam, Netherlands 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Yuan, Mingliang,Spadaro, Giuliana,Jin, Shuxian,et al. Did Cooperation Among Strangers Decline in the United States? A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Social Dilemmas (1956-2017)[J]. PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN,2022,148(3-4):129-157. |
APA | Yuan, Mingliang.,Spadaro, Giuliana.,Jin, Shuxian.,Wu, Junhui.,Kou, Yu.,...&Balliet, Daniel.(2022).Did Cooperation Among Strangers Decline in the United States? A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Social Dilemmas (1956-2017).PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN,148(3-4),129-157. |
MLA | Yuan, Mingliang,et al."Did Cooperation Among Strangers Decline in the United States? A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Social Dilemmas (1956-2017)".PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN 148.3-4(2022):129-157. |
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