Modelowanie sytuacji społecznych: zaufanie i kooperacja pomiędzy nieznajomymi o nierównym statusie
Modelling Social Situations: Trust and Cooperation Among Strangers of Unequal Status

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a process of constructing and testing a new theoretical model, one which explains howstatus differentiation affects cooperation between partners involved in one-shot Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD)situations. Bridging claims from status characteristics and collective action theories, we predict that in a PDwhere actors are differentiated by salient status distinctions, the rate of cooperation will vary depending onthe partner’s status relative to the focal actor, as well as on whether it is a simultaneous or sequential game.In order to demonstrate the challenges involved in constructing and testing new models, we describe twodifferent one-shot, two-person PD experiments, which are designed to test our predictions. We concludewith both substantive and methodological discussion.

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