Measuring Ethnic Bias: Can Misattribution-Based Tools from Social Psychology Reveal Group Biases that Economics Games Cannot?
Measuring Ethnic Bias: Can Misattribution-Based Tools from Social Psychology Reveal Group Biases that Economics Games Cannot?
复制标题
衡量种族偏见：社会心理学中基于错误归因的工具能否揭示经济游戏无法揭示的群体偏见？
作者：
Ashley M. B. Blum;C. Hazlett;Daniel N. Posner
经济学游戏，如独裁者和公共物品游戏，已被广泛用于衡量政治科学和经济学中的种族偏见。然而，这些工具可能无法像预期的那样衡量偏见，因为它们容易受到自我表现的影响和/或无法捕捉根植于更自动的联想和情感反应的偏见。我们研究了一套基于错误归因的方法，这些方法改编自社会心理学，可以回避这些问题。肯尼亚内罗毕的参与者完成了一系列常见的经济学游戏，同时还完成了针对这一背景的错误归因任务，每个游戏都旨在检测相对于种族而言对非种族的偏见。几个错误归因任务显示出明显的（预期的）偏见证据，可以证明反映了积极/消极影响的差异以及对非种族的威胁感知的增强。相比之下，“独裁者”和“公共产品”游戏无法检测出非种族与种族行为之间的任何偏见。我们的结论是，种族和其他偏见的研究人员可能会受益于在他们的工具包中包括基于错误归因的程序，以扩大他们的调查敏感的偏见集。
Abstract Economics games such as the Dictator and Public Goods Games have been widely used to measure ethnic bias in political science and economics. Yet these tools may fail to measure bias as intended because they are vulnerable to self-presentational concerns and/or fail to capture bias rooted in more automatic associative and affective reactions. We examine a set of misattribution-based approaches, adapted from social psychology, that may sidestep these concerns. Participants in Nairobi, Kenya completed a series of common economics games alongside versions of these misattribution tasks adapted for this setting, each designed to detect bias toward noncoethnics relative to coethnics. Several of the misattribution tasks show clear evidence of (expected) bias, arguably reflecting differences in positive/negative affect and heightened threat perception toward noncoethnics. The Dictator and Public Goods Games, by contrast, are unable to detect any bias in behavior toward noncoethnics versus coethnics. We conclude that researchers of ethnic and other biases may benefit from including misattribution-based procedures in their tool kits to widen the set of biases to which their investigations are sensitive.
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
Greenwald, AG;McGhee, DE;Schwartz, JLK
通讯作者：
Schwartz, JLK