School of Psychology, University of Plymouth.
Faculty of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin.
Psychol Sci. 2024 Oct;35(10):1094-1107. doi: 10.1177/09567976241267854. Epub 2024 Aug 19.
Many societal challenges are threshold dilemmas requiring people to cooperate to reach a threshold before group benefits can be reaped. Yet receiving feedback about others' outcomes relative to one's own () can undermine cooperation by focusing group members' attention on outperforming each other. We investigated the impact of relative feedback compared to (only seeing one's own outcome) on cooperation in children from Germany and India (6- to 10-year-olds, = 240). Using a threshold public-goods game with real water as a resource, we show that, although feedback had an effect, most groups sustained cooperation at high levels in both feedback conditions until the end of the game. Analyses of children's communication (14,374 codable utterances) revealed more references to social comparisons and more verbal efforts to coordinate in the relative-feedback condition. Thresholds can mitigate the most adverse effects of social comparisons by focusing attention on a common goal.
许多社会挑战都是门槛困境，需要人们合作达到门槛，才能获得群体利益。然而，收到关于他人相对于自己的结果的反馈（）可能会破坏合作，因为它将群体成员的注意力集中在相互超越上。我们调查了相对反馈（只看到自己的结果）与（仅看到自己的结果）对来自德国和印度的儿童（6 至 10 岁，n=240）合作的影响。我们使用真实水作为资源的门槛公共物品游戏表明，尽管反馈有影响，但在两种反馈条件下，大多数群体都在游戏结束前保持高水平的合作。对儿童沟通的分析（14374 个可编码话语）表明，在相对反馈条件下，更多地提到了社会比较，并且更多地通过语言努力协调。通过将注意力集中在一个共同目标上，门槛可以减轻社会比较最不利的影响。
