“Framing Processes in Social Dilemmas.
Formal Modelling and Experimental Validation.”

This presentation is about the effects of cognitive representation (framing) on cooperation in social dilemma situations. Making use of a latent class approach, I can show that cooperation decisions of actors in an experimental social dilemma game can be categorized in two classes of behavioural patterns, corresponding to normative framing versus gain-oriented framing of the decision situation. The results validate Lindenberg’s (1998) theory of normative behaviour.

The presentation builds on excerpts of Chapters 4 and 6 of my dissertation. It was held on November 27th, 2002, in the Mathematical Sociology Group meeting at the ICS Groningen. A publication of the results is in preparation.

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