Who discriminates? Evidence from a trust game experiment across three societies

IF 2.5 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Journal of Economic Psychology Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2023.102630

Swee-Hoon Chuah , Simon Gächter , Robert Hoffmann , Jonathan H.W. Tan

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Abstract

What personal characteristics are associated with the extent to which individuals discriminate against particular groups? We use an incentive-compatible measure of an individual’s tendency to discriminate on others’ different social identities that takes into account the costs of discrimination. In particular, we elicit participants’ willingness to discriminate (WTD) in their investments to make their decisions dependent on others’ social identities using a laboratory trust game experiment with 545 participants in three countries: Malaysia, China and the UK. Analysis of our WTD measure shows that discrimination differs depending on discriminators’ cultural group identity and political values. Demographic variables including age and gender are not significant. Overall our results support the psychological distinctiveness of WEIRD participants found in other studies.

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谁歧视?来自三个社会的信任游戏实验的证据

哪些个人特征与个人歧视特定群体的程度有关?我们使用一种激励相容的方法来衡量个人歧视他人不同社会身份的倾向，并将歧视的成本考虑在内。特别是，我们利用实验室信任博弈实验，在马来西亚、中国和英国这三个国家的545名参与者中，引出了参与者在投资中根据他人的社会身份做出决定的歧视意愿(WTD)。对WTD测量的分析表明，歧视因歧视者的文化群体认同和政治价值观而异。包括年龄和性别在内的人口统计变量不显著。总的来说，我们的结果支持在其他研究中发现的WEIRD参与者的心理独特性。

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Journal of Economic Psychology Multiple-

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5.20

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31.40%

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审稿时长

63 days

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