Belief in a Zero-Sum Game as a Social Axiom: A 37-Nation Study  

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Rózycka-Tran, Joanna ; Boski, Pawel ; Wojciszke, Bogdan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 46 no. 4 (May 2015), page 525-548.
Topik: Belief in a Zero-Sum Game; social axioms; cross-cultural psychology
Fulltext: JCCP_46_04_525.pdf (740.82KB)

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This article introduces a novel concept, Belief in a Zero-Sum Game (BZSG), proposed as another belief dimension in the family of social axioms. We conceptualize BZSG as a belief system about the antagonistic nature of social relations—that one person’s gain is possible only at the expense of other persons. It appears on a level of personal convictions and as a cultural worldview ideology. We found that persons or nations who believe in a zero-sum game engage in win-lose social exchanges over limited resources. Psychometric evidence for the universality of the BZSG scale in a large pancultural project of 37 nations is presented, where individual and cultural-level predictors of BZSG were tested, followed by their multilevel analyses. BZSG, which shows a conceptual and empirical affinity with societal cynicism, is moderated by previously described cultural dimensions and by objective socio-economic indices.

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