Egoistic micro-motivation lacks momentum from one act of cooperation to the next.

Evidence

It will be a mark of this kind of motivation, however, in a pure form, that there will be no motivational momentum from one case of cooperation to the next. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 199

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply distinguishes micro-motivation from macro-motivation by a single testable feature: absence of cross-case motivational momentum.
• XREF: connects to: Cooperative members who lack psychological ownership tend to disengage. — Adrian Josef Amon, Organizing the study of degeneration…, 101; Cooperative civic activities decline faster than individual ones — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 127; Rational collectivities form through imperfect local commitment, not achieved perfection. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2369