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Victim Sensitivity and Proposal Size Modulate the Ingroup Favoritism During Fairness Norm Enforcement

People show a strong aversion to inequality and are willing to sacrifice their own interests to punish violations of fairness norms. Empirical research has found that group membership could influence the fairness judgment and norm enforcement of the individuals but has shown inconsistent findings an...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Zhen, Zhao, Hui, Liu, Ruixue, Qi, Chunhui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8511311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34659052
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.738447
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author Zhang, Zhen
Zhao, Hui
Liu, Ruixue
Qi, Chunhui
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Liu, Ruixue
Qi, Chunhui
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description People show a strong aversion to inequality and are willing to sacrifice their own interests to punish violations of fairness norms. Empirical research has found that group membership could influence the fairness judgment and norm enforcement of the individuals but has shown inconsistent findings and has not focused much on the potential moderators. Here, the two studies aimed to investigate whether victim sensitivity and proposal size moderate the impact of group membership on reactions to unfair proposals. In both studies, the participants with different victim sensitivity (low vs. high group) played the hypothetical (Study 1) and incentivized (Study 2) ultimatum game under the intragroup and intergroup condition and indicated their responses to the different proposals. Results showed that, regardless of the victim sensitivity, ingroup member is often given preferential and positive treatment. Low victim sensitive persons are more likely to accept unfair offers from the ingroup than the outgroup, while this effect was attenuated for those with high victim sensitivity, especially for highly ambiguous unfair offers (offer 6:4 in Study 1 and 8:2 in Study 2). Moreover, the ingroup favoritism score for ambiguous unfair offers was smaller for high compared with the victim sensitivity group. Taken together, the victim sensitivity, and proposal size could moderate the ingroup favoritism on responses to unfairness.
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spelling pubmed-85113112021-10-14 Victim Sensitivity and Proposal Size Modulate the Ingroup Favoritism During Fairness Norm Enforcement Zhang, Zhen Zhao, Hui Liu, Ruixue Qi, Chunhui Front Psychol Psychology People show a strong aversion to inequality and are willing to sacrifice their own interests to punish violations of fairness norms. Empirical research has found that group membership could influence the fairness judgment and norm enforcement of the individuals but has shown inconsistent findings and has not focused much on the potential moderators. Here, the two studies aimed to investigate whether victim sensitivity and proposal size moderate the impact of group membership on reactions to unfair proposals. In both studies, the participants with different victim sensitivity (low vs. high group) played the hypothetical (Study 1) and incentivized (Study 2) ultimatum game under the intragroup and intergroup condition and indicated their responses to the different proposals. Results showed that, regardless of the victim sensitivity, ingroup member is often given preferential and positive treatment. Low victim sensitive persons are more likely to accept unfair offers from the ingroup than the outgroup, while this effect was attenuated for those with high victim sensitivity, especially for highly ambiguous unfair offers (offer 6:4 in Study 1 and 8:2 in Study 2). Moreover, the ingroup favoritism score for ambiguous unfair offers was smaller for high compared with the victim sensitivity group. Taken together, the victim sensitivity, and proposal size could moderate the ingroup favoritism on responses to unfairness. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8511311/ /pubmed/34659052 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.738447 Text en Copyright © 2021 Zhang, Zhao, Liu and Qi. https://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) and the copyright owner(s) 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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Zhang, Zhen
Zhao, Hui
Liu, Ruixue
Qi, Chunhui
Victim Sensitivity and Proposal Size Modulate the Ingroup Favoritism During Fairness Norm Enforcement
title Victim Sensitivity and Proposal Size Modulate the Ingroup Favoritism During Fairness Norm Enforcement
title_full Victim Sensitivity and Proposal Size Modulate the Ingroup Favoritism During Fairness Norm Enforcement
title_fullStr Victim Sensitivity and Proposal Size Modulate the Ingroup Favoritism During Fairness Norm Enforcement
title_full_unstemmed Victim Sensitivity and Proposal Size Modulate the Ingroup Favoritism During Fairness Norm Enforcement
title_short Victim Sensitivity and Proposal Size Modulate the Ingroup Favoritism During Fairness Norm Enforcement
title_sort victim sensitivity and proposal size modulate the ingroup favoritism during fairness norm enforcement
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8511311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34659052
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.738447
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