FROM MACROCONTINGENCIES TO METACONTINGENCIES IN THE DILEMMA OF COMMONS

Authors

  • Elayne Esmeraldo Nogueira
  • Laercia Abreu Vasconcelos Universidade de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18542/rebac.v11i2.1941

Abstract

The aim of this study was to conduct an experimental analogue of a macrocontingency using the Dilemma of Common. Three participants were given 100 fish and withdrew 2, 4 or 6 at each attempt. There was a contingent adjustment about the number removed and the number of remaining fish was informed. In the Base line, the choices were classified, in B1 they were disclosed, and in B2 players talked to each other. There were 3 groups with changes in the order of the experimental conditions, and a control group. There was extinction of resources in the control group and in the first baselines, which were analyzed as a macrocontingency. There was an increase of resources in conditions B with interlacing of participants' choices, analyzed as an experimental analogue of a metacontingency. Keywords: Macrocontingency, metacontingency, Dilemma of the Common 

Author Biographies

Elayne Esmeraldo Nogueira

Graduada em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e Mestre em Ciências do Comportamento pela UnB. Psicóloga do Tribunal de Justiça da Paraíba

Laercia Abreu Vasconcelos, Universidade de Brasília

Professora do Departamento de Processos Psicológicos Básicos da Universidade de Brasília. Pós-Graduação em Ciências do Comportamento; Universidade de Brasília; Caixa Postal 4500; 70910-900 Brasília, DF.(61)3107-6833

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Published

2016-09-17

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2015)

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