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The effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm
This study investigates whether participants use categorical or individual knowledge about others in order to make cooperative decisions in an adaptation of the trust game paradigm. Concretely, participants had to choose whether to cooperate or not with black and white unknown partners as a function...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600900/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26528221 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01568 |
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author | Cañadas, Elena Rodríguez-Bailón, Rosa Lupiáñez, Juan |
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description | This study investigates whether participants use categorical or individual knowledge about others in order to make cooperative decisions in an adaptation of the trust game paradigm. Concretely, participants had to choose whether to cooperate or not with black and white unknown partners as a function of expected partners’ reciprocity rates. Reciprocity rates were manipulated by associating three out of four members of an ethnic group (blacks or whites consistent members) with high (or low) reciprocity rates, while the remaining member of the ethnic group is associated with the reciprocity of the other ethnic group (inconsistent member). Results show opposite performance’s patterns for white and black partners. Participants seemed to categorize white partners, by making the same cooperation decision with all the partners, that is, they cooperated equally with consistent and inconsistent white partners. However, this effect was not found for black partners, suggesting a tendency to individuate them. Results are discussed in light of the implications of these categorization-individuation processes for intergroup relations and cooperative economic behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-46009002015-11-02 The effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm Cañadas, Elena Rodríguez-Bailón, Rosa Lupiáñez, Juan Front Psychol Psychology This study investigates whether participants use categorical or individual knowledge about others in order to make cooperative decisions in an adaptation of the trust game paradigm. Concretely, participants had to choose whether to cooperate or not with black and white unknown partners as a function of expected partners’ reciprocity rates. Reciprocity rates were manipulated by associating three out of four members of an ethnic group (blacks or whites consistent members) with high (or low) reciprocity rates, while the remaining member of the ethnic group is associated with the reciprocity of the other ethnic group (inconsistent member). Results show opposite performance’s patterns for white and black partners. Participants seemed to categorize white partners, by making the same cooperation decision with all the partners, that is, they cooperated equally with consistent and inconsistent white partners. However, this effect was not found for black partners, suggesting a tendency to individuate them. Results are discussed in light of the implications of these categorization-individuation processes for intergroup relations and cooperative economic behavior. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4600900/ /pubmed/26528221 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01568 Text en Copyright © 2015 Cañadas, Rodríguez-Bailón and Lupiáñez. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Cañadas, Elena Rodríguez-Bailón, Rosa Lupiáñez, Juan The effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm |
title | The effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm |
title_full | The effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm |
title_fullStr | The effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm |
title_short | The effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm |
title_sort | effect of social categorization on trust decisions in a trust game paradigm |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600900/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26528221 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01568 |
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