| Summary: | As individuals from
different nations increasingly interact with each other, research on national
in-group favoritism becomes particularly vital. In a cross-national,
large-scale study (N = 915) including representative samples from four Latin
American nations (Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela) and the USA, we explore
differences regarding nationality-based in-group favoritism. In-group
favoritism is assessed through differences in prosocial behavior towards
persons from the own nation as compared to persons from other nations in fully
incentivized one-shot dictator games. We find strong evidence for national
in-group favoritism for the overall sample, but also significant differences
among national subsamples. Latin Americans show more national in-group
favoritism compared to US Americans (interacting with Latin Americans). While
US Americans mainly follow an equal split norm (for both in- and out-group
interactions), Latin Americans do so only in in-group interactions. The
magnitude of in-group favoritism increases with social distance towards the
out-group.
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