Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.
Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2022 Apr;44:237-244. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.018. Epub 2021 Sep 30.
Prior research has found that people's choices in economic games are often only modestly related to their prosocial personality traits and to mundane prosocial behaviors. The present article reviews the recent literature showing that the strength of these relationships depends on the level of aggregation. Specifically, we demonstrate an increase in behavioral consistency after horizontal aggregation (across multiple game types), vertical aggregation (across multiple game variants), and a combination thereof. Moreover, we show that aggregation increases the magnitude of the relationships of game behavior with prosocial personality and mundane prosocial behavior. These findings illustrate that economic games can genuinely capture a core facet of human prosociality - but that their capacity for doing so is greater when multiple game behaviors are considered.
先前的研究发现，人们在经济游戏中的选择通常与他们的亲社会人格特质和平凡的亲社会行为仅有适度的关系。本文回顾了最近的文献，表明这些关系的强度取决于聚合水平。具体来说，我们证明了在横向聚合（跨多种游戏类型）、纵向聚合（跨多种游戏变体）以及两者结合后，行为一致性会增强。此外，我们还表明，聚合会增加游戏行为与亲社会人格和平凡亲社会行为之间关系的强度。这些发现表明，经济游戏确实可以捕捉到人类亲社会性的一个核心方面——但当考虑多个游戏行为时，它们的捕捉能力更强。
