EU Competence in the Area of Procedural Criminal Law: Functional vs. Self-standing Approximation of Procedural Rights and Their Progressive Effect on the Charter’s Scope of Application (Editorial)

Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, accountability, and effectivit

Old wine in a new bottle: Shaping the foundations of EU criminal law through the concept of legal interests (Rechtsgüter)

Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, accountability, and effectivit

Legaliteit in Brussel en Luxemburg: uitleg en werking van het bepaaldheidsgebod in de EU-rechtsorde

Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, accountability, and effectivit

Criminalization Powers of the European Union and the Risks of Cherry-Picking between Various Legal Bases: The Case for a Single Legal Framework for EU-Level Criminalization

Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, accountability, and effectivit

Are Alternatives to the European Arrest Warrant Underused?: The Case for an Integrative Approach to Judicial Cooperation Mechanisms in the EU Criminal Justice Area

Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, accountability, and effectivit

What is smart in social dilemmas: Differential effects of priming competence on cooperation

Prior theorizing of rationality in social dilemmas suggests that individuals pursuing different interaction goals may 'perceive' different associations between competence and behaviour in a social dilemma, arguing that competitive individuals associate competence with noncooperation (i.e. noncooperation = smart), whereas prosocial individuals associate competence with cooperation (i.e. cooperation = smart; goal-prescribes-rationality principle, Van Lange Kuhlman, 1994). The present research examines whether cooperative interaction can be affected by subtle activation (or priming) of competence, and whether the effects may differ for competitive versus prosocial participants. Consistent with hypotheses, two experiments revealed that priming competence yielded reduced levels of cooperation (and greater exploitation) among competitors, and yielded no effects (Experiment 1) or a tendency towards enhanced cooperation (Experiment 2) among prosocials. The discussion considers theoretical implications of relatively subtle influences on cooperative interaction in social dilemmas. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd