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An experiment on individual ‘parochial altruism’ revealing no connection between individual ‘altruism’ and individual ‘parochialism’

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, August 2015
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Title
An experiment on individual ‘parochial altruism’ revealing no connection between individual ‘altruism’ and individual ‘parochialism’
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, August 2015
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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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
United States 1 3%
Germany 1 3%
Unknown 36 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 23%
Student > Master 8 21%
Student > Bachelor 4 10%
Researcher 4 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 8%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 6 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 17 44%
Social Sciences 5 13%
Neuroscience 4 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 8%
Philosophy 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 7 18%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 May 2022.
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#107
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