Role of Social Capital and its Construction

2009 Fiscal Year Self-evaluation Report

• Project Area: Experimental Social Sciences: Toward Experimentally-based New Social Sciences for the 21st Century
• Project/Area Number: 19046002
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Review Section: Humanities and Social Sciences
• Research Institution: Waseda University (2008-2012); Tokyo Institute of Technology (2007)
• Principal Investigator: SHIMIZU Kazumi Waseda University, 政治経済学術院, 准教授 (20308133)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2012
• Keywords: 社会関係資本 / メカニズム・デザイン / 環境 / 公共財供給 / 実験

Research Abstract

RQbert. Putnam(1993, 2000)によると、社会関係資本Social Capitalは「社会的ネットワーク、およびそこから生じる互酬性、信頼性の規範」であり、それは社会的ジレンマにおける協調行動を促し、社会全体の効率性を改善するとされる。本研究の目的は、実験手法を用いて、適切な社会関係資本の尺度を構築し、社会関係資本が全体として効率性を増加させるかどうかを検証することにある。また社会的ジレンマ解決に対して社会関係資本が与え得る可能性を実験によって探る。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] An impossibility theorem for matching problems (2010)
  • Author(s): Shohei Takagi1, Shigehiro Serizawa
  • Journal Title: Social Choice and Welfare
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 後悔の社会的適応メカニズム:対人的状況における後悔 (2010)
  • Author(s): 小宮あすか・渡部幹・楠見孝
  • Journal Title: 心理学評論 53(印刷中)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Coalitionally strategy-proof rules in allotment economies with homogeneous indivisible goods (2009)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Hatsumi, Shigehiro Serizawa
  • Journal Title: Social Choice and Welfare Volume33,Number3 Pages: 423-447
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Fundamental Impossibility Theorems on Voluntary Participation in the Provision of Non-Excludable Public Goods (2009)
  • Author(s): Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Takehiko Yamato
  • Journal Title: Review of Economic Design (forthcoming)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Minimal Social Cues in the Dictator Game. (2009)
  • Author(s): Rigdon, M., Ishii, K., Watabe, M., Kitayama, S.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Economic Psychology 30 Pages: 358-367
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Reexamining the Relations between Socio-demographic Characteristics and Individual Environmental Concern: Evidence from Shanghai Data. (2008)
  • Author(s): Shen J., *Saijo, T.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Psychology 28 Pages: 42-50
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Auctions for Public Construction with Corner cutting (2010)
  • Author(s): Shigehiro Serizawa
  • Organizer: presented at Asia Pacific Meeting of the ESA
  • Place of Presentation: University of Melbourne
  • Year and Date: 2010-02-20
• [Presentation] Regret in Interpersonal and Self Contexts US-Japan comparison. (2009)
  • Author(s): Komiya, Asuka, Watabe, Motoki, Miyamaoto, Yuri, Kusumi, Takashi
  • Organizer: Society for Judgment and Decision Making
  • Place of Presentation: Boston
  • Year and Date: 2009-11-22
• [Presentation] Judgment on Others'Trustworthiness: an fMRI Study. (2009)
  • Author(s): Watabe, M.
  • Organizer: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association
  • Place of Presentation: San Francisco
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-11
• [Presentation] Group-based Trust, Trustworthiness and Voluntary Cooperation-Evidence from Experimental and Survey Data in China. (2009)
  • Author(s): Qin, X., Shen, J., Meng, X.
  • Organizer: Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of Chinese Experimental Economics
  • Place of Presentation: Shanghai
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-11
• [Presentation] Easy Issue for Me, Hard Issue for Them: Field Experiment in Large Social Survey. (2008)
  • Author(s): Shimizu, K., Fukumoto, K., Watabe, M., Morimoto, Y.
  • Organizer: Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association
  • Place of Presentation: Boston
  • Year and Date: 2008-08-28
• [Presentation] Size effects in the Life-Death Decision Hypothesis (2008)
  • Author(s): Shimizu, K., Udagawa, D
  • Organizer: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Human Behavior and Evolution Society
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-06
• [Book] 感情と思考の科学事典(海保博之・松原望監修・北村英哉・竹) (2010)
  • Author(s): 清水和巳
  • Publisher: 朝倉書店(印刷中)