Effect of social value orientation and social distance on college students'cooperative behaviors
Objective To explore the influence of different social value orientation and social distance on the cooperative behavior of Chinese college students.Methods A total of 60 undergraduates were selected to participate in the prisoner's dilemma paradigm.2(social value orientation:prosocial vs pro-self)×4(social distance:family,classmate,fellow townsman and stranger)within-subject experiment was designed to test the hypothesis.Results The main effect of social distance was significant,while the main effect of value orientation and its interaction were not significant.When the subjects faced their family members,their cooperative behavior was significantly higher than that of facing fellow townsmen,classmates and strangers.Conclusion People's cooperative behavior is affected by the social distance,and the prosocial people show more cooperative tendency than the pro-self people when facing their fellow townsmen.
Social ValuesPsychological distanceCooperative behaviorsPrisoner dilemma