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Article: An evaluation of the social desirability of prosocial self-other allocation choices.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSES of social choice behavior have provided strong evidence for the presence of stable individual differences, or social value orientations, in actors' preferences among various self--other outcome distributions (Kelley & Thibaut, 1978; Kuhlman, Camac, & Cunha, 1986; Mac-Crimmon & Messick, 1976; McClintock, 1977; McClintock & Liebrand, 1988; Platow, McClintock, & Liebrand, 1990). Three such individual differnces have received considerable attention. These are: (a) the orientation to obtain the greatest amount of resources for self, independent of the outcomes to other (i.e., strict own gain), an individualistic social value; (b) the ...