Corr Philip J, Hargreaves Heap Shaun P, Seger Charles R, Tsutsui Kei
Department of Psychology, City University London London, UK.
Department of Political Economy, King's College London London, UK.
Front Psychol. 2015 Aug 20;6:1261. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01261. eCollection 2015.
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.
狭隘利他主义是个体行为的一种属性吗？这是我们通过一项实验要解决的问题。我们研究在与同组成员互动时，在公共物品和信任博弈中表现出的个体亲社会性，是否有助于预测以群体内偏见衡量的个体狭隘主义（即，在这些博弈中，与自己组的成员互动时相比与另一组的成员互动时亲社会性的差异）。我们发现并非如此。对每种行为的大五人格预测因素的考察强化了这一结果：它们是不同的。简而言之，了解个体对同组成员的亲社会程度无助于预测他们的狭隘主义。
