Addressing Racism in Behavioral Sciences: Recent Insights in the Experimental Analysis of Fairness and Inequity Aversion

IF 1.6 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Behavior and Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI:10.1007/s42822-024-00179-0

Celina Yoshie Tanaka, Laís Maia, Marcelo Benvenuti

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Issues related to racism and prejudice have been investigated in the field of behavior analysis through stimulus equivalence and relational responding. In addition to this, racism discussed in social and cultural studies considers the problem to have a larger structural basis and is related to decision making involving unequal income distributions. The experimental analysis of fairness and inequity aversion has shown the influence of social and cultural characteristics on the acceptance or rejection of unequal distributions of resources among different individuals and groups. Race is an important aspect that may influence inequity aversion. This work aims to present some studies conducted on the phenomenon of inequity aversion and relate it to the discussion of structural racism, offering a new approach to solving and investigating this social problem. We explore the role of studies about inequity aversion, how fairness may be modulated by cooperative experiences, and their implications to antiracist practices in the context of behavioral sciences.

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解决行为科学中的种族主义问题：公平与不公平厌恶实验分析的最新见解

行为分析领域通过刺激等效和关系反应研究了与种族主义和偏见有关的问题。除此之外，社会和文化研究中讨论的种族主义问题认为该问题具有更大的结构性基础，与涉及不平等收入分配的决策有关。对公平和不公平厌恶的实验分析表明，社会和文化特征对不同个人和群体接受或拒绝不平等的资源分配有影响。种族是可能影响不公平厌恶的一个重要方面。本著作旨在介绍一些关于不公平厌恶现象的研究，并将其与结构性种族主义的讨论联系起来，为解决和调查这一社会问题提供一种新的方法。我们探讨了有关不公平厌恶现象的研究的作用、合作经验如何调节公平性，以及这些研究对行为科学背景下的反种族主义实践的影响。

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