The collective benefits of feeling good and letting go: positive emotion and (dis)inhibition interact to predict cooperative behavior.

ABSTRACT: Cooperation is central to human existence, forming the bedrock of everyday social relationships and larger societal structures. Thus, understanding the psychological underpinnings of cooperation is of both scientific and practical importance. Recent work using a dual-process framework suggests that intuitive processing can promote cooperation while deliberative processing can undermine it. Here we add to this line of research by more specifically identifying deliberative and intuitive processes that affect cooperation. To do so, we applied automated text analysis using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software to investigate the association between behavior in one-shot anonymous economic cooperation games and the presence inhibition (a deliberative process) and positive emotion

SUBMITTER: Rand DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4308081 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature