Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time
The questions of whether and how socioeconomic status (SES) predicts prosocial behavior have sparked an interest from different disciplines, yet experimental evidence is inconclusive. We embedded two types of dictator games in a web survey with 7772 participants from Germany, Poland, Sweden, and the...
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description | The questions of whether and how socioeconomic status (SES) predicts prosocial behavior have sparked an interest from different disciplines, yet experimental evidence is inconclusive. We embedded two types of dictator games in a web survey with 7772 participants from Germany, Poland, Sweden, and the US. Each participant was asked to split a sum of money and a fixed amount of time between themself and a recipient. While higher-SES individuals are more generous than lower-SES individuals in the money game, they are more egoistic in the time game. In addition, the SES of the recipient matters more in the money game than in the time game. These results point towards the relevancy of a situationally contingent social norm of redistribution in studying the relationship between SES and prosocial behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-92370582022-06-29 Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time Liebe, Ulf Schwitter, Nicole Tutić, Andreas Sci Rep Article The questions of whether and how socioeconomic status (SES) predicts prosocial behavior have sparked an interest from different disciplines, yet experimental evidence is inconclusive. We embedded two types of dictator games in a web survey with 7772 participants from Germany, Poland, Sweden, and the US. Each participant was asked to split a sum of money and a fixed amount of time between themself and a recipient. While higher-SES individuals are more generous than lower-SES individuals in the money game, they are more egoistic in the time game. In addition, the SES of the recipient matters more in the money game than in the time game. These results point towards the relevancy of a situationally contingent social norm of redistribution in studying the relationship between SES and prosocial behavior. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9237058/ /pubmed/35760835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14800-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Liebe, Ulf Schwitter, Nicole Tutić, Andreas Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time |
title | Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time |
title_full | Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time |
title_fullStr | Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time |
title_full_unstemmed | Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time |
title_short | Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time |
title_sort | individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35760835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14800-y |
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