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The Role of Certainty in a Two-Person Volunteer’s Dilemma

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2023
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Villiger, D., Ullrich, J., & Krueger, J. I. (2023). The Role of Certainty in a Two-Person Volunteer’s Dilemma. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(4), 459–469. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221107268

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In the standard volunteer’s dilemma (VoD), a single prosocial act (i.e., volunteering) yields the optimal overall outcome. Whereas the volunteer’s outcome is certain, the defector’s outcome depends on what others do. This research addressed the confounding of prosocial responses with uncertainty avoidance in the standard VoD. In Experiment 1, participants (N = 102) considered 18 hypothetical one-shot two-person VoD scenarios with certain, risky, and uncertain outcomes when volunteering. In Experiment 2, participants (N = 496) consider

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14

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4

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459

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469

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Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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English

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2023-05-01

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2022-08-25

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1948-5514

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105 since deposited on 2022-08-25
98last week
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127 since deposited on 2022-08-25
125last week
Acq. date: 2025-11-13

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Villiger, D., Ullrich, J., & Krueger, J. I. (2023). The Role of Certainty in a Two-Person Volunteer’s Dilemma. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(4), 459–469. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221107268

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