The effect of power on people's willingness to sacrifice for the environment

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelaine Parker ◽  
Mercedes Pearson ◽  
Kyle Conlon ◽  
Paul Rose
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Sacrifice

Conditional Giving: The Role of Conflict Specific Factors on Willingness to Sacrifice

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent A. Mattingly ◽  
Eddie M. Clark ◽  
Kiara J. Weaver ◽  
Tim M. Emge ◽  
Chris K. Adair
Keyword(s):  
Specific Factors ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice

The Self-Undermining State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Interstate War ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice ◽  
The Cost

This chapter provides an informal rationalist model of state formation as an exchange between a central authority and a population. In the model, the central authority protects the population against external threats and the population disarms and pays taxes. The model specifies the conditions under which the exchange is self-enforcing, meaning that the parties prefer the exchange to alternative courses of action. These conditions—costly but winnable interstate war—are historically rare, and the cost of such wars can rise beyond the population’s willingness to sacrifice. At this point, the population prefers to avoid war rather than fight it and may prefer an alternative institution to the state if that institution can prevent war and reduce the level of extraction. Thus the modern centralized state is self-undermining rather than self-enforcing. A final section addresses alternative explanations for state formation.

Giving when it costs

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 722-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Day ◽  
Emily A. Impett
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Daily Experience ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
The Face ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice

Do some people exhibit a greater willingness to sacrifice in romantic relationships and derive more satisfaction from doing so, even in the face of high costs? In a cross-sectional study and a daily experience study, we show that people low in interdependent self-construal were less willing to sacrifice when the costs were relatively high, whereas people high in interdependent self-construal were equally willing to make high- and low-cost sacrifices. Further, when people low in interdependent self-construal chose to sacrifice, they felt less authentic when the costs were high, which in turn, detracted from their satisfaction with sacrifice. In contrast, people high in interdependent self-construal did not feel less authentic and were buffered against feeling less satisfied when making more costly sacrifices. The findings identify a set of individuals who are more willing to sacrifice, even in the face of high costs, and who feel more satisfied and authentic when doing so.

Willingness to Sacrifice for the Environment Scale

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Davis ◽  
Benjamin Le ◽  
Anthony E. Coy
Keyword(s):  
Environment Scale ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice

Tales of ‘Heroes’ and ‘Saviours’

Hypocrisy ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Vincent Shing Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice ◽  
The Mass Media

This chapter, with examples from the mass media, outlines how the image of the police officers and prison officers is presented in party propaganda. Different ‘model’ officers are presented in ways highlighting their ‘exemplary qualities’, like their willingness to sacrifice self for public good, and emphasizing their heroic and benevolent personal characteristics. It examines how the party propaganda might affect drug detainees’ expectations of the police and prison officers in real life.

scholarly journals Social contagion of ethnic hostility

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (19) ◽  
pp. 4881-4886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Bauer ◽  
Jana Cahlíková ◽  
Julie Chytilová ◽  
Tomáš Želinský
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Experimental Test ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Destructive Behavior ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roma People ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice

Interethnic conflicts often escalate rapidly. Why does the behavior of masses easily change from cooperation to aggression? This paper provides an experimental test of whether ethnic hostility is contagious. Using incentivized tasks, we measured willingness to sacrifice one’s own resources to harm others among adolescents from a region with a history of animosities toward the Roma people, the largest ethnic minority in Europe. To identify the influence of peers, subjects made choices after observing either destructive or peaceful behavior of peers in the same task. We found that susceptibility to follow destructive behavior more than doubled when harm was targeted against Roma rather than against coethnics. When peers were peaceful, subjects did not discriminate. We observed very similar patterns in a norms-elicitation experiment: destructive behavior toward Roma was not generally rated as more socially appropriate than when directed at coethnics, but the ratings were more sensitive to social contexts. The findings may illuminate why ethnic hostilities can spread quickly, even in societies with few visible signs of interethnic hatred.

scholarly journals Effects of Goal Framing and Emotions on Perceived Threat and Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Bilandzic ◽  
Anja Kalch ◽  
Jens Soentgen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Discrete Emotions ◽  
Goal Framing ◽  
Conflicting Evidence ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice

This study explores discrete emotions (guilt, fear, hope) as mediators for effects of goal framing on perceived threat of climate change and willingness to sacrifice. To reconcile conflicting evidence, the study introduces and tests the distinction between gain-positive frames (positive consequences of engaging in climate protection), gain-negative frames (avoiding negative consequences when engaging in climate protection), and loss frames (negative consequences of not engaging in climate protection). Results show that gain-negative frames increase perceived threat and willingness to sacrifice, while loss frames increase them through guilt and fear. Hope is increased by a gain-positive frame but subsequently lowers both outcomes.

Willingness to sacrifice in close relationships.

1997 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 1373-1395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. M. Van Lange ◽  
Caryl E. Rusbult ◽  
Stephen M. Drigotas ◽  
Ximena B. Arriaga ◽  
Betty S. Witcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationships ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice
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