权力是零和博弈还是变和博弈?用两个博弈论实验对一个百年争论的语境相关答案进行概念化

IF 1.2 4区 社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Science Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI:10.1080/00323187.2020.1827960
Lin Liu, Yi Yang
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权力是零和(相对得失)还是变和(绝对得失)?对这个百年谜题的回答取决于权力如何在不同背景下的人类互动中表现出来。虽然研究这一难题的理论贡献很少寻求实证帮助,但本文利用两个博弈论实验来寻求答案。它包括随机分配的启动处理,然后是三组参与者在选择游戏中进行一轮决策,测试人类对权力的主观理解如何在不同情况下转化为各种客观权力练习。研究结果表明,在“权力到”的情况下,人们在心理上更重视个人代理(即不受他人影响的自由),他们倾向于追求绝对收益而不是相对收益,表现出一种可变和权力行使策略;相反,在“权力至上”的背景下,人们更看重自己影响他人的能力(即与他人相互依赖),个人成为相对收益最大化者,因此将每次权力行使的总和视为零。因此,我们得出的结论是,权力是零和还是可变和取决于情境,因为权力的框架和主体对权力的主观理解(即“权力”vs“权力”,作为情境)塑造了他们在权力交易中的客观行为(即“零和”vs“可变和”权力行使)。
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Is power zero-sum or variable-sum? Conceptualizing a context-dependent answer to a century-old debate with two game theoretic experiments
ABSTRACT Is power zero-sum (relative gain/loss) or variable-sum (absolute gain/loss)? The response to this century-old puzzle depends on how power manifests itself during human interactions in diverse contexts. While few theoretical contributions investigating this puzzle seek empirical assistance, this paper utilises two game theoretic experiments for an answer. Consisting of a randomly assigned priming treatment followed by a single round of decision-making in a choice game for three groups of participants, it tests how human subjective understanding of power translates into varied objective power exercises in different situations. Findings reveal that in a ‘power to’ context whereby people mentally value their individual agency more (i.e. freedom from others), they tend to pursue absolute than relative gains, displaying a variable-sum power exercise strategy; in contrast, in a ‘power over’ context whereby people value their ability to affect others more (i.e. interdependence with others), individuals become relative-gain maximisers, thus viewing the sum of each power exercise as zero. Therefore, we conclude that whether power is zero-sum or variable-sum is context-dependent because how power is framed and subjectively understood by agents (i.e., ‘power to’ vs. ‘power over’, as contexts) shape their objective behaviours in power transactions (i.e., ‘zero-sum’ vs. ‘variable-sum’ power exercise).
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