Psychological Traces of China's Socio-Economic Reforms in the Ultimatum and Dictator Games

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	Psychological Traces of China's Socio-Economic Reforms in the Ultimatum and Dictator Games
	Zhu, Liqi1 ; Gigerenzer, Gerd 2; Gang Huangfu 3
刊名	PLOS ONE
	2013
卷号	8 期号:8
ISSN号	1932-6203
通讯作者	Zhu, LQ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
产权排序	1
英文摘要	Can traces of rapid socio-economic changes within a society be reflected in experimental games? The post-Mao reforms in China provide a unique natural quasi-experiment to study people from the same society who were raised with radically different values about distribution of wealth and altruistic behavior. We tested whether the size of offers in the ultimatum and dictator games are an increasing function of the number of years Chinese citizens experienced of the Mao era ("planned economy"). For the cohort that lived throughout the entire Mao era, we found that mean offers in the two games were substantially higher than what is typically offered in laboratory studies. These offers were also higher than those of two younger Chinese cohorts. In general, the amount offered decreased with less time spent under Mao, while in the oldest group in which every member spent the same amount of time under Mao, the younger members tended to offer more, suggesting an additional effect of early education under Mao and contradicting the alternative hypothesis that generosity increases with age. These results suggest that some of the observed individual differences in the offers made in experimental games can be traced back to the values of the socio-economic era in which individuals grew up.
学科主题	Social psychology
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
类目[WOS]	Multidisciplinary Sciences
研究领域[WOS]	Science & Technology - Other Topics
关键词[WOS]	SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES ; BEHAVIORAL-EXPERIMENTS ; CULTURAL-DIFFERENCES
收录类别	SCI
项目简介	The study was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2010CB8339004) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (30970911). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
原文出处	http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0070769&representation=PDF
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000323221500028
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10845]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Max Planck Inst Human Dev, Berlin, Germany 3.Beihang Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhu, Liqi,Gigerenzer, Gerd,Gang Huangfu. Psychological Traces of China's Socio-Economic Reforms in the Ultimatum and Dictator Games[J]. PLOS ONE,2013,8(8).
APA	Zhu, Liqi,Gigerenzer, Gerd,&Gang Huangfu.(2013).Psychological Traces of China's Socio-Economic Reforms in the Ultimatum and Dictator Games.PLOS ONE,8(8).
MLA	Zhu, Liqi,et al."Psychological Traces of China's Socio-Economic Reforms in the Ultimatum and Dictator Games".PLOS ONE 8.8(2013).