Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity
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 endowmen...
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| author | Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Edmund Derrington Edmund Derrington Julien Bénistant Julien Bénistant Brice Corgnet Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Chen Qu Chen Qu Chen Qu Jean-Claude Dreher Jean-Claude Dreher |
| author_facet | Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Edmund Derrington Edmund Derrington Julien Bénistant Julien Bénistant Brice Corgnet Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Chen Qu Chen Qu Chen Qu Jean-Claude Dreher Jean-Claude Dreher |
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| description | 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 collectivism is thought to be stronger in Asian than western societies, greater generosity at larger social distances might also be expected among Chinese participants. The results showed that Chinese were more generous than French at close social distances but discounted more as social distance increased. This difference between French and Chinese was confined to family members and no significant difference in generosity was observed between French and Chinese for non-family members at any social distance. Our findings evidence a stronger kinship premium among Chinese than French students, and no significant effect of cultural collectivism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b819fcff6b014f8c8429802ef7634a7f2023-02-24T14:37:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-02-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.10879791087979Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosityJiawei Liu0Jiawei Liu1Jiawei Liu2Jiawei Liu3Edmund Derrington4Edmund Derrington5Julien Bénistant6Julien Bénistant7Brice Corgnet8Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst9Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst10Zixuan Tang11Zixuan Tang12Zixuan Tang13Zixuan Tang14Chen Qu15Chen Qu16Chen Qu17Jean-Claude Dreher18Jean-Claude Dreher19Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaLaboratory of Neuroeconomics, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, FranceUFR Biosciences, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, FranceLaboratory of Neuroeconomics, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, FranceUFR Biosciences, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, FranceLaboratory of Neuroeconomics, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, FranceUFR Biosciences, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, FranceEmLyon, Écully, FranceLaboratory of Neuroeconomics, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, FranceUFR Biosciences, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, FranceLaboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaLaboratory of Neuroeconomics, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, FranceUFR Biosciences, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, FranceLaboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaLaboratory of Neuroeconomics, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, FranceLaboratory of Neuroeconomics, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, Lyon, FranceUFR Biosciences, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, FranceSocial 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 collectivism is thought to be stronger in Asian than western societies, greater generosity at larger social distances might also be expected among Chinese participants. The results showed that Chinese were more generous than French at close social distances but discounted more as social distance increased. This difference between French and Chinese was confined to family members and no significant difference in generosity was observed between French and Chinese for non-family members at any social distance. Our findings evidence a stronger kinship premium among Chinese than French students, and no significant effect of cultural collectivism.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1087979/fullsocial discountingkinship premiumaltruismcultural collectivismChinesegenerosity |
| spellingShingle | Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Jiawei Liu Edmund Derrington Edmund Derrington Julien Bénistant Julien Bénistant Brice Corgnet Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Zixuan Tang Chen Qu Chen Qu Chen Qu Jean-Claude Dreher Jean-Claude Dreher Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity Frontiers in Psychology social discounting kinship premium altruism cultural collectivism Chinese generosity |
| title | Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity |
| title_full | Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity |
| title_fullStr | Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity |
| title_short | Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity |
| title_sort | cross cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity |
| topic | social discounting kinship premium altruism cultural collectivism Chinese generosity |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1087979/full |
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