Social Psychology

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A social dilemma refers to the conflict between individual and group goals. One may behave altruistically if concern for others outweighs self-concern. When I was faced by a dilemma with my family, I used cooperation as a way to solve the dilemma. Cooperation involves trusting and sharing of ideas with those we interact with. By cooperating, I eliminated the chance to compete thus favouring both sides.
Most people have been in one way or another been victims of system justification. It involves determining what is fair or right in social interaction. Social norms set up by either the government or the people are the determinants of what is right or fair. Poor people are victims of system justification. A simple way to know whether people are victims of system justification is by checking their social status. Poor people are more likely to be victims than rich people.
A poor person can be used to show strategies that he/she can take to improve self-image. The person can use the social creativity strategy. It involves the use of strategies to allow low-status members of a group to perceive it as a better group than others. Alternative characteristics are found to support the group excel. Also, the low-status members can use the collective action strategy. It can be achieved by taking actions to change the status hierarchy to improve the group status.
When I was faced by a dilemma, I responded by cooperating with my opponents.

I was guided by morality beliefs and harm based morality. I was able to judge my opponent’s behavior as well as my own. Also, help not to respond violently as it is wrong to harm a person.
Laboratory games that are used to asses responses in social dilemmas include; prisoners, resource and trucking games (Blanco 201). The games propose that the best way to respond to a dilemma is to balance between other concern and self-concern. However, this may not be the case as individuals tend to respond to dilemmas depending on their orientation. The limitation of using the lab games to asses’ responses is that a persons’ underlying orientation may influence his or her response. However, using laboratory games produces quality outcomes as experiments have been done in real life situations.
Works CitedBlanco, Mariana and Engelmann, Dirk and Koch, Alexander K and Normann, Hans-Theo. Preferences and beliefs in a sequential social dilemma: a within-subjects analysis. Vol. 41. Elsevier, 2014.
Schulz, Ulrich, Wulf Albers, and Uli Mueller. Social Dilemmas and Cooperation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1994. Internet resource.