The Impact Of Social Value Orientation On Cooperative Behavior

Cooperation is a pro-social behavior when people complete activities together. It is a common goal of the collaborative activities which is not only advantage of individual, but also others’ behaviors and aims. Cooperation is a basic form of social interaction, and is important to human social existence and development of the basic conditions. Then, how the human cooperate during their daily life? Which factors influnce the cooperation? Psychologists make the research from the cognitive, personality traits, motivation.In this study, the experimental method and questionnaire were used with interviews supplemented. The study focused on the affect of social value orienation on cooperative behavior. The classic "Prisoner’s Dilemm" dilemma experiments and cooperative behavior questionnaire were selected in order to investigate283college students, which included118boys and165girls. Study1, We used classic Prisoner’s Dilemma paradigm with multi-factor mixed design. Study2, We used the scale of cooperation to further verify the impact of social value orientation on cooperative behavior. The results indicated as following:1、People with different value orientation was not the same in the proportion. The largest one was cooperative orientation group, and individual orientation group was in the middle, and the proportion of competition-oriented was the smallest. What’s more, there are still some unknown type of value orientation.2、Different values of cooperative behavior orientation is significantly affected the behavior of cooperation. People, who was of cooperation, will adopt a more cooperative behavior.3、The cooperative behavior of groups was not only influnced by the impact of value orientation, but also by the companion’s strategy. And cooperation strategy will induce more cooperative behavior.4、Different gender performed complecated in cooperative behavior. Whereas, the results of the study1and2were the same, which is to say, there was no difference in gender of cooperative behavior.5、There was significant difference in various major. Students of science were more cooperative than the students of literature.6、High-grade students were more cooperative than low-grade ones.