Title |
An experiment on individual ‘parochial altruism’ revealing no connection between individual ‘altruism’ and individual ‘parochialism’
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Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, August 2015
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DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01261 |
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Authors |
Philip J. Corr, Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, Charles R. Seger, Kei Tsutsui |
Abstract |
Is parochial altruism an attribute of individual behavior? This is the question we address with an experiment. We examine whether the individual pro-sociality that is revealed in the public goods and trust games when interacting with fellow group members helps predict individual parochialism, as measured by the in-group bias (i.e., the difference in these games in pro-sociality when interacting with own group members as compared with members of another group). We find that it is not. An examination of the Big-5 personality predictors of each behavior reinforces this result: they are different. In short, knowing how pro-social individuals are with respect to fellow group members does not help predict their parochialism. |
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