Pacifist strategy and cooperation under interpersonal risk.

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Conducted 5 experiments with Norwegian (n = 51) and U.S. (n = 20) college students to investigate the effects of a confederate's pacifist (unconditionally cooperative) strategy on cooperation and exploitation under conditions in which real pairs rarely cooperate. In Exp I the confederate used a totally pacifist strategy at the onset. 12 of 13 Norwegian Ss eventually cooperated. In Exp II and III the confederate delayed 10 and 30 trials, respectively, before switching to the pacifist strategy. Only the latter condition substantially reduced the proportion of Norwegian Ss who cooperated; only 7 out of 13 Ss cooperated. In Exp IV the confederate used the pacifist strategy after taking once from the S. 6 of 13 Norwegian Ss cooperated. Exp V was a replication of Exp I using American Ss. 11 of 20 Ss cooperated. Results suggest that pacifism can produce substantial cooperation under at least 1 set of potentially conflictive conditions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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