dc.contributor.author | Madland, Kjetil Røiseland | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-23T11:18:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-23T11:18:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-09 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2017-06-08T22:00:06Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/16098 | |
dc.description.abstract | Is cooperation intuitive or deliberative? From an early notion of cooperation as a deliberate suppression of innate selfish preferences, a growing body of literature has turned the general perception towards prosocial behaviour as something intuitive, sometimes actively oppressed for the sake of selfish needs and wishes. If the dual-process framework from psychology gives a better description of decision making than do the classical economic models, this will have important implications for many economic models. Testing the social heuristics hypothesis through a sequential prisoners’ dilemma conducted both in the lab and by an online survey, I find no conclusive evidence that increased deliberation systematically changes willingness to cooperate with strangers. This is the first study (to my knowledge) to isolate the effect of a manipulation through preferences. The results hold for both a general regression of cooperation on the deliberation treatment, and for the main analysis, with separate effects through preferences and beliefs. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.publisher | The University of Bergen | eng |
dc.subject | Deliberation | eng |
dc.subject | Stability of preferences | eng |
dc.subject | Cooperation | eng |
dc.subject | Dual-process theory | eng |
dc.subject | Social heuristics hypothesis | eng |
dc.subject | Prisoners' dilemma | eng |
dc.subject | Beliefs | eng |
dc.subject | Intuition | eng |
dc.subject | Preferences | eng |
dc.title | Do Cognitive Processes Influence Social Preferences? Testing the social heuristics hypothesis in a sequential prisoner's dilemma | eng |
dc.type | Master thesis | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2017-06-08T22:00:06Z | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright the author. All rights reserved. | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Masteroppgave | |
dc.description.localcode | ECON391 | |
dc.subject.nus | 734103 | eng |
fs.subjectcode | ECON391 | |
fs.unitcode | 15-15-00 | |