Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: de Cremer, D.
Author-Name-Last: de Cremer
Author-Name-First: David
Author-Name: van Knippenberg, D.L.
Author-Name-Last: van Knippenberg
Author-Name-First: Daan
Author-Name: van Dijk, E.
Author-Name-Last: van Dijk
Author-Name-First: Eric
Author-Name: van Leeuwen, E.
Author-Name-Last: van Leeuwen
Author-Name-First: Esther
Title: Cooperating if one’s Goals are Collective-Based: Social Identification Effects in Social Dilemmas as a Function of Goal-Transformation
Abstract: Prior studies of the effect of group identification on cooperation in social dilemmas have advanced two competing accounts of this effect, the goal-transformation hypothesis, which holds that identification implies a sense of collective self, which makes personal and collective goals interchangeable, and the goal-amplification hypothesis, which states that identification induces positive expectations about others’ cooperative behavior.  These prior studies have, however, neglected to assess the process measures necessary to pit the one account against the other. Following prior research, the present study showed that the effect of identification was moderated by participants’ social value orientation (i.e., individual differences in evaluating the importance of outcomes for self and other) in such a way that identification influenced proselfs’ cooperation more than prosocials’ cooperation.  This suggests that the consequence of group identification is that collective goals become personal goals.  Extending earlier recent research, mediational analyses showed that the effect of our identification manipulation was mediated by participants’ sense of collective self and not by their expectations. Taken together, these results provide strong support in favor of the goal-transformation hypothesis.
Creation-Date: 2007-02-05
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/9041/ERS-2007-010-ORG.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2007-010-ORG
Classification-JEL: L2, M, M10, M12
Keywords: Goal-amplification hypothesis, Goal-transformation hypothesis
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:9041