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Equity, Equal Shares or Equal Final Outcomes? Group Goal Guides Allocations of Public Goods

In an experiment we investigate preferences for allocation of a public good among group members who contributed unequally in providing the public good. Inducing the group goal of productivity resulted in preferences for equitable allocations, whereas inducing the group goals of harmony and social co...

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Autores principales: Kazemi, Ali, Eek, Daniel, Gärling, Tommy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5263145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28179890
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00036
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description In an experiment we investigate preferences for allocation of a public good among group members who contributed unequally in providing the public good. Inducing the group goal of productivity resulted in preferences for equitable allocations, whereas inducing the group goals of harmony and social concern resulted in preferences for equal final outcomes. The study makes a contribution by simultaneously treating provision and allocation of a public good, thus viewing these as related processes. Another contribution is that a new paradigm is introduced that bears closer resemblance to real life public good dilemmas than previous research paradigms do.
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spelling pubmed-52631452017-02-08 Equity, Equal Shares or Equal Final Outcomes? Group Goal Guides Allocations of Public Goods Kazemi, Ali Eek, Daniel Gärling, Tommy Front Psychol Psychology In an experiment we investigate preferences for allocation of a public good among group members who contributed unequally in providing the public good. Inducing the group goal of productivity resulted in preferences for equitable allocations, whereas inducing the group goals of harmony and social concern resulted in preferences for equal final outcomes. The study makes a contribution by simultaneously treating provision and allocation of a public good, thus viewing these as related processes. Another contribution is that a new paradigm is introduced that bears closer resemblance to real life public good dilemmas than previous research paradigms do. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5263145/ /pubmed/28179890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00036 Text en Copyright © 2017 Kazemi, Eek and Gärling. 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.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5263145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28179890
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