Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems

Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Thöni, Christian; Tufano, Fabio; Weber, Till

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110552

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“…This holds across a wide range of relationship classes, from acquaintances to close friends 10 . The tools have been widely used across the social and behavioral sciences especially in the disciplines of psychology and sociology 11 – 16 and in various applied fields such as health 17 – 19 ; there is also growing interest in new areas of application (e.g., research in economics 20 – 22 or computer science 23 , 24 ) where, until recently, these tools had barely been used at all.…”

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Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness

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Tufano

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The study of relationship closeness has a long history in psychology and is currently expanding across the social sciences, including economics. Estimating relationship closeness requires appropriate tools. Here, we introduce and test a tool for estimating relationship closeness: ‘IOS11’. The IOS11 scale has an 11-point response scale and is a refinement of the widely used Inclusion-of-Other-in-the-Self scale. Our tool has three key features. First, the IOS11 scale is easy to understand and administer. Second, we provide a portable, interactive interface for the IOS11 scale, which can be used in lab and online studies. Third, and crucially, based on within-participant correlations of 751 individuals, we demonstrate strong validity of the IOS11 scale in terms of representing features of relationships captured by a range of more complex survey instruments. Based on these correlations we find that the IOS11 scale outperforms the IOS scale and performs as well as the related Oneness scale.

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Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness

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Tufano

et al. 2024

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“…Bartz et al, 2010;Calbi et al, 2021); there is also growing interest in new areas of application (e.g. research in economics including Gächter et al (2022); Gächter et al (2023); Goette and Tripodi (2021) or computer science, see Westlund et al (2018);Miller et al (2019)) where, until fairly recently, these tools had barely been used at all.…”

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'IOS11': A new, extended, interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale

Baader,

starmer,

Tufano

et al. 2023

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We introduce and test a new tool designed to measure “relationship closeness”. Studying relationship closeness has a long history in psychology and is currently expanding in other fields including economics. Our new measurement tool is a refinement of the widely used ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale (IOS for short) of Aron et al. (1992) and is designed to embody three key features. First, it retains attractive attributes of the standard IOS tool including being an effective measurement technique which is easy to implement and understand. Second, we enhance the scope for convenient use of the tool via the development of a portable interactive interface that will be particularly useful in online studies. Thirdly and crucially, through extensive pre-registered experimental testing, we demonstrate that our enhanced tool – IOS11 which features an 11-point response scale – outperforms previous versions of IOS in better proxying features of relationships captured by a range of more complex survey tools; the performance of IOS11 is also indistinguishable from that of the more complex ‘Oneness’ measure of Cialdini et al. (1997) which uses the standard IOS as one of its two-item inputs.

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Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems

Cited by 2 publications

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Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness

Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness

'IOS11': A new, extended, interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale

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