What Makes You Generous? The Influence of Rural and Urban Rearing on Social Discounting in China.
What Makes You Generous? The Influence of Rural and Urban Rearing on Social Discounting in China.
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是什么让你变得慷慨？
DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0133078
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发表时间：
2015
期刊：
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Jin J
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作者：
Ma Q;Pei G;Jin J
当决策者和接受者之间的社会距离增加时，个体共享资源的意愿下降，这被称为社会折扣。这种依赖于社会距离的亲社会行为很可能受到个体成长地区的影响。本研究在前人关于社会折扣研究的基础上，重点考察了中国农村和城市家庭成员的亲社会行为。我们的数据表明，两组的行为符合社会折扣函数，并符合双曲线模型，在以前的研究报告的社会折扣。有趣的是，在农村长大的人比在城市长大的人产生的折扣率更小，这表明农村长大的人比城市长大的人更慷慨。此外，这种独特的慷慨行为尤其发生在社会距离较远的人中，如陌生人或遥远的熟人。究其原因，可能是由于农村和城市人在主导文化、生产方式和生活方式上的差异。
An individual’s willingness to share resources declines as the social distance between the decision maker and the recipient increases, which is known as social discounting. This social-distance-dependent prosocial behavior is likely to be influenced by the region in which individuals were raised. Based on previous studies on social discounting, this research focuses on the differing social distance-dependent prosocial behaviors between rural- and urban-reared participants in China. Our data showed that both groups’ behaviors conform to the social discounting function and fit the hyperbolic model, as reported in previous studies about social discounting. Interestingly, individuals who were raised in rural areas yielded a smaller discount rate than those who were raised in urban areas, which indicated that a rural upbringing produced people who were more generous than those with an urban upbringing. Furthermore, this distinct type of generosity occurred notably among individuals with greater social distance, such as strangers or distant acquaintances. The reason may be due to the difference in dominant culture, production mode and lifestyle between rural and urban people.