Pronoun Drop and Prosocial Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Japan
Pronoun Drop and Prosocial Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Japan
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代词的下降和亲社会行为：来自日本的实验证据
DOI：
10.1007/s40881-020-00083-4
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
K. Yamada
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作者：
He;T;J. Riyanto;S. C. Tanaka;K. Yamada
我们加入了越来越多的文献，这些文献表明人们所说的语言会影响他们的决策。我们测试了在类似独裁者游戏的环境中，去掉第一人称代词“我”是否会影响亲社会行为。为此，我们对2000名具有社会代表性的日本受访者进行了一项在线随机激励实验。我们提供了令人信服的因果证据，证明省略代词会降低亲社会性。鉴于我们的研究结果几乎不支持之前的研究结果，将第一人称代词的使用与较低的亲社会性联系起来，我们在经济学中的几个跨国实证研究中规定，在使用语言作为文化的替代品时要谨慎。
We join a growing body of literature suggesting that the languages people speak influence their decision-making. We tested whether dropping the first-person pronoun “I” affects pro-social behavior in a dictator game-like setting. To this end, we conducted an online randomized, incentivized experiment with a socially representative sample of 2000 Japanese respondents. We provide compelling causal evidence that pronoun dropping reduces pro-sociality. Given that our results provide little empirical support for previous research findings linking first-person pronoun use and lower pro-sociality, we prescribe caution in using languages as a proxy for culture in several cross-country empirical studies in economics.