Cd. Parks, KTEH PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF SOCIAL VALUES IN RESOURCE DILEMMAS AND PUBLIC-GOODS GAMES, Personality & social psychology bulletin, 20(4), 1994, pp. 431-438
Social values, or orientations toward specific goals, have been found
to predict choice behavior in prisoner's dilemma-type games. However,
their predictive ability in other types of social dilemmas (specifical
ly, public goods and resource dilemmas) is not well established. This
study compared the predictive ability of several methods of assessing
social values, as well as Yamagishi's Trust Scale and an older measure
of trust, the Fascism (F) Scale. Social values, as assessed by Knight
and Dubro's judgmental measurement technique, were found to be predic
tive of resource dilemma behavior; trust, measured with Yamagishi's Tr
ust Scale, predicted contribution to public goods. The trust and socia
l values scales were not correlated, suggesting that they are distinct
concepts; however, the social value scales did not correlate with eac
h other A testable explanation for the results, centering on the natur
e of payoffs in the different games, is offered.