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Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation
There is growing evidence that risky cooperation is regulated by the experience of previous interactions with others. However, it is unclear how the evaluation of outcomes from competitive interactions can affect individuals’ subsequent cooperative behavior. To address this issue, we examined how pa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10073108/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37015992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32523-6 |
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author | Li, Yansong Liu, Zhenliang Wang, Yuqian Derrington, Edmund Moisan, Frédéric Dreher, Jean-Claude |
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description | There is growing evidence that risky cooperation is regulated by the experience of previous interactions with others. However, it is unclear how the evaluation of outcomes from competitive interactions can affect individuals’ subsequent cooperative behavior. To address this issue, we examined how participants cooperated with a partner having just competed with them. While competing, participants (N = 164) were randomly assigned to receive one of four types of outcome feedback regarding their performance (victory vs. defeat vs. uncertain vs. no competition (control)). We found that both the experience of defeats and of uncertainty as competitive outcomes exerted a negative impact on the extent to which participants then engaged in cooperative behavior with their recent opponents. This only occurred when such subsequent cooperative behavior involved a high potential for incurring personal costs but not when there was no risk of incurring personal costs and a positive return. Finally, mediation analysis revealed that the effect of defeat was mediated by participants’ level of interpersonal trust and the extent to which participants were willing to cooperate, while the effect of the uncertain competitive outcome was mediated only by the extent to which participants were willing to cooperate. These findings offer novel insights into how risky cooperation is modulated by previous competition. |
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spelling | pubmed-100731082023-04-06 Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation Li, Yansong Liu, Zhenliang Wang, Yuqian Derrington, Edmund Moisan, Frédéric Dreher, Jean-Claude Sci Rep Article There is growing evidence that risky cooperation is regulated by the experience of previous interactions with others. However, it is unclear how the evaluation of outcomes from competitive interactions can affect individuals’ subsequent cooperative behavior. To address this issue, we examined how participants cooperated with a partner having just competed with them. While competing, participants (N = 164) were randomly assigned to receive one of four types of outcome feedback regarding their performance (victory vs. defeat vs. uncertain vs. no competition (control)). We found that both the experience of defeats and of uncertainty as competitive outcomes exerted a negative impact on the extent to which participants then engaged in cooperative behavior with their recent opponents. This only occurred when such subsequent cooperative behavior involved a high potential for incurring personal costs but not when there was no risk of incurring personal costs and a positive return. Finally, mediation analysis revealed that the effect of defeat was mediated by participants’ level of interpersonal trust and the extent to which participants were willing to cooperate, while the effect of the uncertain competitive outcome was mediated only by the extent to which participants were willing to cooperate. These findings offer novel insights into how risky cooperation is modulated by previous competition. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10073108/ /pubmed/37015992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32523-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Li, Yansong Liu, Zhenliang Wang, Yuqian Derrington, Edmund Moisan, Frédéric Dreher, Jean-Claude Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation |
title | Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation |
title_full | Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation |
title_fullStr | Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation |
title_full_unstemmed | Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation |
title_short | Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation |
title_sort | spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10073108/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37015992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32523-6 |
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