Social institutions promoting cooperation toward future generations

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23365
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0110:Psychology and related fields
• Research Institution: Kochi University of Technology (2020-2021); Kyushu University (2019)
• Principal Investigator: Inoue Yukako 高知工科大学, フューチャー・デザイン研究所, 助教(PD) (00850976)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 持続可能性 / 世代間ジレンマ / 協力行動 / 評判

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined whether the reputation system, one of the social institutions that maintains cooperation toward the contemporaries, may also maintain cooperation toward future generations or inhibit it. Specifically, this study investigated whether people in the current generation positively or negatively evaluated the cooperator toward future generations. The results showed that people in the current generation positively evaluate cooperation toward future generations even when it brings costs to them. The results suggest that the reputation system may support cooperation toward future generations.

Free Research Field

社会心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

学術的には、将来世代への協力を維持する社会システムについての研究が乏しい中、本研究は現世代同士の協力を支える社会システムの1つである評判システムに着目し、これが将来世代への協力を支えうるかという問いに挑む最初の研究としての意義を持つ。社会的には、本研究は将来世代への協力を促進・阻害しうる要因を明らかにしようと試みるものであり、持続可能な社会の達成に寄与する知見を提供したという意義を持つ。