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Prosociality in the economic dictator game is associated with less parochialism and greater willingness to vote for intergroup compromise

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Date
06/01/2020
Author
Mosleh, Mohsen
Stewart, Alexander J.
Plotkin, Joshua B.
Rand, David G.
Keywords
Dictator game
Ingroup bias
Intergroup attitudes
Prosociality
QA Mathematics
Decision Sciences(all)
Economics and Econometrics
Applied Psychology
T-NDAS
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Abstract
Is prosociality parochial or universalist? To shed light on this issue, we examine the relationship between the amount of money given to a stranger (giving in an incentivized Dictator Game) and intergroup attitudes and behavior in the context of randomly assigned teams (a minimal group paradigm) among N = 4,846 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. Using a set of Dynamic Identity Diffusion Index measures, we find that participants who give more in the Dictator Game show less preferential identification with their team relative to the other team, and more identification with all participants regardless of team. Furthermore, in an incentivized Voter Game, participants who give more in the Dictator Game are more likely to support compromise by voting for the opposing team in order to avoid deadlock. Together, these results suggest that – at least in this subject pool and using these measures – prosociality is better characterized by universalism than parochialism.
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Mosleh , M , Stewart , A J , Plotkin , J B & Rand , D G 2020 , ' Prosociality in the economic dictator game is associated with less parochialism and greater willingness to vote for intergroup compromise ' , Judgment and Decision Making , vol. 15 , no. 1 , pp. 1-6 . < http://journal.sjdm.org/19/190814/jdm190814.html >
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Judgment and Decision Making
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1930-2975
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://journal.sjdm.org/19/190814/jdm190814.html.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21714

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