Shared identity and personal tie in influencing cooperative behavior

Authors

  • Hao Jiang Pennsylvania State University
  • John M. Carroll Pennsylvania State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v10i1.2673

Keywords:

shared identity, social tie, personal tie, social capital, economic game

Abstract

In this paper, we present a lab study on cooperative behavior in an economic game setting. We are particularly interested in two important social relations, namely shared identity and social ties, in influencing cooperative behavior, a form of social capital. The study suggests that both shared identity and social tie can lead to cooperation, but in different ways: shared identity will help resource reach wider recipients and social ties can concentrate resource distribution between persons who are connected. This finding has implication for practitioners and action researchers who are interested in community informatics.

Author Biographies

Hao Jiang, Pennsylvania State University

Hao Jiang is currently a Ph.D candidate at Penn State University, majored in Information science and technology.He got his bachelor degree from Beijing University, China in 2001, majored in Library Science.  His research interests are human-computer interaction, community informatics and technology in education.

John M. Carroll, Pennsylvania State University

John M.Carroll was a founder of human-computer interaction, the youngest of the 9 core areas of Computer Science identified by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He served on the program committee of the 1982 Bureau of Standards Conference on the Human Factors of Computing Systems that in effect inaugurated the field, and was the direct predecessor of the field's flagship conference series, the ACM CHI Conferences. Through the past two decades, Carroll has been a leader in the development of the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Through the past two decades, Carroll has been a leader in the development of the field of Human-Computer Interaction. In 1984 he founded the User Interface Institute at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, the most influential corporate research laboratory during the latter 1980s. Now, he is still actively involved in HCI research, leading the computer-supported collaboration and learning (CSCL) lab in Pennsylvania State University.

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Published

2013-11-07

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Research Articles