Fair Is Fair, or Is It? Territorial Identity Triggers Influence Ultimatum Game Behavior
Fair Is Fair, or Is It? Territorial Identity Triggers Influence Ultimatum Game Behavior
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DOI：
10.1111/pops.12543
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Suessenbach, Felix
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作者：
Cram, Laura;Moore, Adam;Suessenbach, Felix
公平观念是社会团结概念的基础，也是政权凝聚力、集体认同和民众合法性的核心。欧洲联盟在所有这些方面都面临挑战。例如，对群体间公平和“落后”的看法，为英国提供了很大的动力。英国脱欧决定。然而，公平感并不是一个客观可靠的衡量标准。内/外群体的结盟，包括种族，甚至足球队的成员资格，已经被实验证明会影响个人的行为，以应对同样公平/不公平的货币提供，即使这种行为在经济上是不合理的。我们开发了一个实验任务，使用适应的最后通牒游戏设计，以研究这种动态如何发挥在多层次的领土身份系统的背景下，如欧盟（EU），没有直接的领土内/外群体动态有关。我们讨论了我们的研究结果的影响，了解复杂的社会身份的影响，在多级系统。我们问我们的调查结果对公平的不同看法可能是建立在帮助了解变量公民的看法，例如，英国脱欧过程和结果的个人“自己的一方”在谈判中，更普遍的是在心理依恋欧盟。
Fairness perception underpins the concept of societal solidarity and is central to regime cohesion, collective identity, and popular legitimacy. The European Union faces challenges on all of these fronts. Perceptions of intergroup (un)fairness and of being "left behind," for example, provided much of the momentum behind the U.K. Brexit decision. Fairness perception is not, however, an objectively reliable measure. In/outgroup alignments, including race and even football team membership, have been shown experimentally to influence individuals' behavior in response to equally fair/unfair monetary offers, even when this behavior is economically irrational. We develop an experimental task, using an adapted ultimatum game design, to examine how this dynamic plays out in the context of multilevel territorial identity systems, such as the European Union (EU), where no straightforward territorial in/outgroup dynamic pertains. We discuss the implications of our findings for understanding complex social-identity effects in multilevel systems. We ask how our findings on differential perceptions of fairness might be built upon to help understand variable citizen perceptions of, for example, the Brexit process and of the outcomes secured by an individuals' "own side" in the negotiations and more generally in relation to psychological attachment to the EU.