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What Is a Social Dilemma? Is It Reasonable to Assume

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What is a social dilemma? Is it reasonable to assume people might act more cooperatively if they were told that lack of cooperation would be penalized in a social dilemma situation? In one study,people were (or were not)primed with information about a penalty for non-cooperation ("in a previous study").What was the effect,in general terms,of this manipulation?


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