2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The mechanism that explains sanctioning behaviors as a solution to the problem of social order
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24330184
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 社会的交換 / 進化 / ゲーム理論 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Large-scale cooperation between unrelated individuals is pervasive only in human societies. The most well-known mechanism to make mutual cooperation possible is sanctioning. Previous experimental studies have shown that people engage in sanctioning even when it is costly. By reexamining such “verified sanctioning behaviors”, the current study showed that sanctioning behaviors do not reflect individual preferences directly. Rather, they are heavily context-dependent. Furthermore, the function of sanctioning is not necessarily the direct effect of transformation of incentive structure. Rather, the joint effect of sanctioning and assortative interaction may make the belief that sanctioning exists reality.
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| Free Research Field |
社会心理学
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