The Development of the Willingness to Cooperate: Collective-Action under the Light of the Constructivist Conception of Adult Development
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Along with the changes experienced in the landscape of global agricultural and food systems there is a rising pressure upon the open-access, common-pool resources and ecological environments of the globe. While the conventional theory underlies the vision of a tragedy, and fosters Leviathan-like remedies to overcome problems of overexploitation and destruction of the commons, growing evidence from field studies
has called for a serious rethinking of the theoretical foundations for the analysis of
collective-action problems. Yet, in moving beyond the conventional view, the lack of a
theory of human valuation hinders both the prediction of agents’ variable responses to
similar incentive structures and the development of a more general theory of collective-action.
In this study, we test experimentally the explanatory power of a constructivist
developmental model of adult personality systems which is particularly suitable for
addressing situations where the individual and the collective gains conflict. The results suggest that the model provides a valuable source of information for the advancement of the theory of collective-action and has important implications for the development of intuitions aimed at overcoming social dilemmas.