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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Cooperation in Foreign Languages

Author : Stefan Nothelfer

Published in: Behavior in Foreign Languages

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Abstract

Human cooperation across different languages and cultures is a cornerstone of our globalized world. The question arises as to whether cross-cultural and cross-linguistic cooperative behavior differ systematically from cooperative behavior within the same language and culture. In this project, we investigate whether and how the use of a foreign language shapes peoples' willingness to cooperate with others. Experimental evidence from an incentivized one-shot continuous prisoner's dilemma in three languages across three countries leads to novel insights regarding language-specific effects and a general foreign language effect on cooperation.

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Footnotes
1
Self-serving bias describes the phenomenon, that individuals attribute positive outcomes to themselves (internal factors), while negative outcomes are attributed to external factors.
 
2
The possible mechanisms behind foreign language effects appear interrelated and not mutually exclusive—it seems possible that they refer to one and the same phenomenon (discussed in detail in Nothelfer, 2017).
 
3
Results from Rand, Greene, and Nowak (2012) are subject to a discussion, after several failed replication attempts (see e.g., Tinghög et al., 2013; Bouwmeester et al., 2017).
 
4
A complete three-by-three factorial design may prove even more informative, but would bring little methodological advantage (see Chapter 2).
 
5
B2 is an upper intermediate level in the common European framework of reference for language (CEFR).
 
6
For an attribution of the questions to specific waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel see Becker, Deckers, Dohmen, Falk, and Kosse (2012).
 
Metadata
Title
Cooperation in Foreign Languages
Author
Stefan Nothelfer
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Behavior in Foreign Languages

Print ISBN: 978-3-658-31852-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-31853-6

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31853-6_4