Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity.

ABSTRACT: Social discounting predicts that one's concern for others decreases with increasing social distance. Cultural dimensions may influence this social behavior. Here, we used a dictator game, in which the participants and real members of their social entourage profited from the partition of the endowments determined by the participant, to compare how Chinese and French university students shared endowments with people at different social distances. We tested two hypotheses based on the concepts of kinship premium and cultural collectivism. Stronger ties between close family members were expected among Chinese. This may predict a larger "kinship premium," i.e., increased generosity to family members at close social distances, in Chinese relative to French participants. Similarly, because collec

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10000291 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature