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The Effect of the Quantity and Distribution of Teammates’ Tendency Toward Self-Interest and Altruism on Individual Decision-Making

Previous studies have explored the impact of the cost ratio of individual solutions versus collective solutions on people’s cooperation tendency in the presence of individual solutions. This study further explored the impact of team credibility on people’s propensity to cooperate in the presence of...

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Autores principales: Zou, Mi, Feng, Jinqiu, Qin, Nan, Diao, Jiangdong, Yang, Yang, Liao, Jiejie, Lin, Jiabao, Mo, Lei
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8877811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222151
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.785806
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author Zou, Mi
Feng, Jinqiu
Qin, Nan
Diao, Jiangdong
Yang, Yang
Liao, Jiejie
Lin, Jiabao
Mo, Lei
author_facet Zou, Mi
Feng, Jinqiu
Qin, Nan
Diao, Jiangdong
Yang, Yang
Liao, Jiejie
Lin, Jiabao
Mo, Lei
author_sort Zou, Mi
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description Previous studies have explored the impact of the cost ratio of individual solutions versus collective solutions on people’s cooperation tendency in the presence of individual solutions. This study further explored the impact of team credibility on people’s propensity to cooperate in the presence of individual solutions. Study 1 investigated the influence of different level of altruistic tendencies or the self-interest tendencies of teammates on participants’ decision-making. Study 2 explored the influence of the distribution of altruistic tendencies or self-interest tendencies on participants’ decision-making. The results of Study 1 showed that the proportion of participants who chose the collective solution increased with an increase in the altruistic tendencies of the team. When the altruistic tendencies of the teammates reached a certain value, the proportion of participants taking the collective solution showed a trend to stabilize. Furthermore, the proportion of participants who chose the individual solution increased with the increase in the self-interest tendencies of the team. When the self-interest tendencies of the teammates reached a certain value, the individual solution was stably adopted. The results of Study 2 showed that with the total altruistic tendency remaining unchanged, the more altruistic group members that altruistic tendencies were allocated to, the higher a participant’s level of trust in the team would be, which showed the decentralized effect of altruistic tendencies. In the case that the total self-interest tendency was unchanged, the fewer self-interest group members the self-interest tendencies were allocated to, the higher a participant’s level of trust in the team would be, which showed the convergent effect of self-interest tendencies.
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spelling pubmed-88778112022-02-26 The Effect of the Quantity and Distribution of Teammates’ Tendency Toward Self-Interest and Altruism on Individual Decision-Making Zou, Mi Feng, Jinqiu Qin, Nan Diao, Jiangdong Yang, Yang Liao, Jiejie Lin, Jiabao Mo, Lei Front Psychol Psychology Previous studies have explored the impact of the cost ratio of individual solutions versus collective solutions on people’s cooperation tendency in the presence of individual solutions. This study further explored the impact of team credibility on people’s propensity to cooperate in the presence of individual solutions. Study 1 investigated the influence of different level of altruistic tendencies or the self-interest tendencies of teammates on participants’ decision-making. Study 2 explored the influence of the distribution of altruistic tendencies or self-interest tendencies on participants’ decision-making. The results of Study 1 showed that the proportion of participants who chose the collective solution increased with an increase in the altruistic tendencies of the team. When the altruistic tendencies of the teammates reached a certain value, the proportion of participants taking the collective solution showed a trend to stabilize. Furthermore, the proportion of participants who chose the individual solution increased with the increase in the self-interest tendencies of the team. When the self-interest tendencies of the teammates reached a certain value, the individual solution was stably adopted. The results of Study 2 showed that with the total altruistic tendency remaining unchanged, the more altruistic group members that altruistic tendencies were allocated to, the higher a participant’s level of trust in the team would be, which showed the decentralized effect of altruistic tendencies. In the case that the total self-interest tendency was unchanged, the fewer self-interest group members the self-interest tendencies were allocated to, the higher a participant’s level of trust in the team would be, which showed the convergent effect of self-interest tendencies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8877811/ /pubmed/35222151 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.785806 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zou, Feng, Qin, Diao, Yang, Liao, Lin and Mo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Zou, Mi
Feng, Jinqiu
Qin, Nan
Diao, Jiangdong
Yang, Yang
Liao, Jiejie
Lin, Jiabao
Mo, Lei
The Effect of the Quantity and Distribution of Teammates’ Tendency Toward Self-Interest and Altruism on Individual Decision-Making
title The Effect of the Quantity and Distribution of Teammates’ Tendency Toward Self-Interest and Altruism on Individual Decision-Making
title_full The Effect of the Quantity and Distribution of Teammates’ Tendency Toward Self-Interest and Altruism on Individual Decision-Making
title_fullStr The Effect of the Quantity and Distribution of Teammates’ Tendency Toward Self-Interest and Altruism on Individual Decision-Making
title_full_unstemmed The Effect of the Quantity and Distribution of Teammates’ Tendency Toward Self-Interest and Altruism on Individual Decision-Making
title_short The Effect of the Quantity and Distribution of Teammates’ Tendency Toward Self-Interest and Altruism on Individual Decision-Making
title_sort effect of the quantity and distribution of teammates’ tendency toward self-interest and altruism on individual decision-making
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8877811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222151
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.785806
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