TY - JOUR
T1 - An experiment on individual ‘parochial altruism’ revealing no connection between individual ‘altruism’ and individual ‘parochialism’
AU - Corr, Philip J.
AU - Hargreaves-heap, Shaun
AU - Seger, Charles
AU - Tsutsui, Kei
PY - 2015/8/20
Y1 - 2015/8/20
N2 - Is parochial altruism an attribute of individual behaviour? This is the question we address with an experiment. We examine whether the individual pro-sociality that is revealed in the public goods and trust games when interacting with fellow group members helps predict individual parochialism, as measured by the in-group bias (i.e., the difference in these games in pro-sociality when interacting with own group members as compared with members of another group). We find that it is not. An examination of the Big-5 personality predictors of each behaviour reinforces this result: they are different. In short, knowing how pro-social individuals are with respect to fellow group members does not help predict their parochialism.
AB - Is parochial altruism an attribute of individual behaviour? This is the question we address with an experiment. We examine whether the individual pro-sociality that is revealed in the public goods and trust games when interacting with fellow group members helps predict individual parochialism, as measured by the in-group bias (i.e., the difference in these games in pro-sociality when interacting with own group members as compared with members of another group). We find that it is not. An examination of the Big-5 personality predictors of each behaviour reinforces this result: they are different. In short, knowing how pro-social individuals are with respect to fellow group members does not help predict their parochialism.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01261
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01261
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01261
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01261
M3 - Article
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology
SN - 1664-1078
M1 - 1261
ER -