A Classification of Social Dilemma Games

Many important human decisions occur in settings in which there is a strong interdependence between one's own and others' outcomes. In such instances an actor's decision affects both the actor's outcomes and those of other persons. Common examples of such social interdependence can be found in making decisions in such diverse issues as beginning or ending interpersonal relationships, the procreation of children, pollution control management, and the use of commonly owned resources such as fresh water supplies and fossil fuels. An important subclass of interdependence situations is found in those settings in which persons, by pursuing immediate self-interest, can harm their own group's interest (Hardin, 1968; Olson, 1965; Platt, 1973). These situations have been called 'social traps' (Platt, 1973), `tragedy of the commons' (Hardin, 1968), '1/ Nth situations' (Meux, 1973), and `social dilemmas' (Dawes, 1975). In the present research, the term

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