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

ABSTRACT: 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 th

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8511311 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature