Confusion of Group-Interest and Self-Interest in Parochial Cooperation on Behalf of a Group

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Baron
Keyword(s):  
Group Interest ◽  
Self Interest

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 214-234
Author(s):  
Jon Elster
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
The Public ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Ancien Régime

This chapter emphasizes the incompleteness of knowledge on key economic variables, which is in part due to the reluctance of individuals, from all social classes, to comply with requests for information. It notes how individuals and institutions had an incentive to misreport, exaggerate, or understate their income and property. At a different level, statements by royal officials, venal magistrates, and elected deputies can rarely be taken at face value. The chapter analyzes the universal tendency of speakers or writers to disguise self-interest or group interest as the public interest. It also argues that by the end of the ancien régime, public opinion was considered a poor substitute for publicity as it is often based on rumors rather than on facts in the public domain.

scholarly journals Optimal H1N1 vaccination strategies based on self-interest versus group interest

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. S4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunha Shim ◽  
Lauren Meyers ◽  
Alison P Galvani
Keyword(s):  
Versus Group ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Vaccination Strategies ◽  
Self Interest

scholarly journals Emergent Prosocial Behavior During Dynamic Human Group Formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Badman ◽  
Masahiko Haruno ◽  
Rei Akaishi
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Group Size ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Experimental Session ◽  
Cooperative Groups ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Tit For Tat

For scientists, policy makers, and the general population, there is increasing interest in how humans form cooperative groups. However, how group-oriented behavior emerges during the dynamic process of group formation is still unknown. We hypothesize that humans will exhibit emergent prosocial behavior as their immediate group size increases. Using a network-embedded-dyad prisoner dilemma task, with periodic opportunities to retain or remove group members, we find subjects consistently follow a well-performing reciprocal base policy (tit-for-tat-like) across the experimental session. However, subjects’ strategies also became more forgiving and less exploitative as group size increased, with a default preference shift to cooperation. Thus, human cooperation may emerge from a desire to create and maintain larger and more cooperative groups, and multiscale strategy that considers both self-interest and group-interest.

Bias and Belief

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-66
Author(s):  
Adrian Bardon
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Psychological Condition ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Subject

This chapter introduces key psychological concepts pertinent to denial, such as cognitive dissonance, motivated reasoning, and confirmation bias. It also addresses the relation between denial and ideology. It explains different social psychology approaches to understanding the phenomena of denial and ideological denialism. Ideological denialism is a unique psychological condition wherein the subject is motivated to embrace a certain conclusion about issues of public relevance for reasons relating to self-interest, group-interest, culture, personality, and/or identity. A discovery of great importance is that the tendency to ideological denial is neither a consequence of being uninformed nor a consequence of one’s lacking political sophistication.

Minimal Group Paradigm: An Inter-group Dynamics Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard M Groen
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Group Self

The study outlined in this paper, was designed to elicit in-group and out-group bias between self-grouped and self-categorised participants, is an adaptation of Tajfel's (et al) 1979 study on ‘social comparison and group interest in in-group favouritism’. Therefore, their article, and others related to it, will be extensively quoted and used in this paper as they form the basis of this study. The Tajfel study examined the effects of reward magnitude and comparability of the out-group on minimal inter-group discrimination where self-interest was related to in-group profit. Favouritism towards own group is hypothesised to arise from inter-group comparison to enhance self-esteem as well as instrumental rivalry for group and self-interest. In this adaptation of their study, sixty-three participants, which were employed in the health sector (n=31) and in the social care sector (n=32) in the North East of England were requested (as part of their survey completion) to distribute rewards (fictitious funding/monetary) via amended choice matrices, to the in-group and the relevant comparison out-group. Self-interest was explicitly and directly linked to the allocation of absolute profit to the in-group.

scholarly journals Group interest versus self-interest in smallpox vaccination policy

2003 ◽  
Vol 100 (18) ◽  
pp. 10564-10567 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. Bauch ◽  
A. P. Galvani ◽  
D. J. D. Earn
Keyword(s):  
Smallpox Vaccination ◽  
Vaccination Policy ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Self Interest

scholarly journals Immigrants’ Support for Welfare Spending and the Role of Perceived and Preferred Group’s Access to Welfare: A Comparative Study Among 10 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Jeanette A J Renema ◽  
Roza Meuleman ◽  
Marcel Lubbers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Welfare Spending ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Welfare Attitudes

Abstract Immigrants’ opinions on welfare spending are often ignored, but an examination of these perspectives provides further insights into the formation of welfare attitudes. We developed a framework proposing that support for welfare spending is not only driven by self-interest and group-interest, but also by the preferences and perceptions of immigrants regarding their group’s access to welfare. We discuss how these two aspects affect immigrants’ support for spending on unemployment benefits and social assistance in the Netherlands. Immigrants were found to be more supportive of spending on welfare to which they perceived they had greater access, particularly when they preferred a more generous access for their group. Their support for welfare spending was weaker if they preferred less generous access.

Consequences of Self-Interest and Group-Interest in Organizations:Exploring Ethical Implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 15689
Author(s):  
Jihyeon Kim ◽  
Scott Reynolds ◽  
Jihyeon Kim ◽  
Elizabeth Luckman ◽  
Brad Lytle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Group Interest ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Self Interest
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