Applications

Van Vugt, M., Snyder, M., Tyler, T., & Biel, A. (2000).  Cooperation in modern society:  promoting the welfare of communities, states, and organisations.  London:  Routledge. (Book, pp. 245)

Van Vugt, M. (1998).  The conflicts of modern society. The Psychologist, June , 289-292. Download

Van Vugt, M., Van Lange, P. A. M. and Meertens, R. M. (1997). Onderzoek naar sociale dilemma's in de praktijk: De vervoerskeuze. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie, 52, 10-21.

Van Vugt, M. (1997).  Why the privatisation of public goods might fail: A social dilemma approach. Social Psychology Quarterly, 63 , 355-366. Download Abstract: This study advanced a social dilemma analysis to examine the role of self-interested and prosocial concerns in the approval of a real-life structural solution: the privatization of the British national railway system in 1996.  As...

Van Vugt, M., Van Lange, P., & Meertens, R. (1996). Commuting by car or public transportation? A social dilemma analysis of travel mode judgments. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 373-395. Download

Van Vugt, M., Van Lange, P. A. M., Meertens, R. M. and Joireman, J. A. (1996). Why structural solutions to social dilemmas might fail: A field experiment on the first carpool priority lane in Europe (link).  Social Psychology Quarterly, 59 , 364-374. Download Abstract: In the current field experiment we evaluate a structural solution to a real-life social dilemma by examining the effects...

Van Vugt, M., Meertens, R., & Van Lange, P.(1995). Car versus public transportation? The role of social value orientations in a real-life social dilemma. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 25, 358-378. Download Abstract: This research evaluates the role of social value orientations (i.e., preferences for distribution of outcomes for the self and others) in decisions as how to commute. It...