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The
commons dilemma revisited: an experimental inquiry linking
trustworthiness, moral conscience, and willingness to cooperate.
Leandro Frederico Ferraz Meyer.
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (Saarbrücken, Germany) 2010 ISBN:
978-3-8383-4035-7
[Based
on Meyer, Leandro Frederico Ferraz,
"The commons
dilemma revisited: toward an integral
approach," dissertation,
Universidade
Federal de Viçosa, MG,
2006.]
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"The
latest developments in institutional analysis of social dilemmas
convey a growing attention given to cognition, belief systems,
valuations, and language. Yet, the developments in this field
operate almost entirely under epistemological assumptions that
deny cognitive content to "value judgments" or
"moral questions," over and above to whatever form of
spiritual knowledge. This standpoint challenges the significance
of the developmental psychology's perspective on moral choices and
undercuts the recognition of its implications to explain behavior
in morally relevant conflicts of action. In this study, I reframe
the inquiry into social dilemmas using Graves/Spiral Dynamics'
conception of the development of the adult personality to explain
the choices and the motivations of Brazilian subjects
participating in different collective action problems with
variable incentives structures. Ken Wilber's Integral Theory is
used to string the cognitivist developmental conception implied in
both Graves and Habermas's account of human sociability together
with the Bloomington School's instrumental account of
"epidemic choices" and the role of communication to
solve social dilemmas. In agreement with the developmental
psychology's central claim, the experimental results suggest that
egocentrism decreases and that willingness to cooperate increases
with the stages of inner growth. The book should be especially
valuable to scholars, and anyone else, interested in elucidate how
the interplay among values systems, trustworthiness, and
willingness to cooperate operates, and how it matters to solve
social dilemmas."
Leandro F.F. Meyer, 2010
Also see related
papers available online.
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