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The helper's allocation of helping resources to multiple recipients often involves a trade-off between equality and efficiency. This research examines how the condition of potential recipients ("survival" or "development") influences the preferences for helping resources allocation in terms of equality and efficiency. Through seven studies, including a field study (Study 6), we discovered that helpers show a higher preference for equality over efficiency when recipients are in a survival situation (i.e., below the survival line) as opposed to in development situation (i.e., above the survival line). This phenomenon is attributed to the different priorities of deontological and utilitarian perspectives in survival and development situations (Studies 3 and 4). Our findings offer insights into the existing research on helping decisions and enhance the understanding of the trade-off between efficiency and equality among helpers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
帮扶者在向多个受助者分配帮扶资源时，往往需要在平等与效率之间做出权衡。本研究探讨了潜在受助者的状况（"生存 "或 "发展"）如何影响求助者在平等和效率方面对帮助资源分配的偏好。通过七项研究，包括一项实地研究（研究 6），我们发现，当受助者处于生存状况（即生存线以下）与发展状况（即生存线以上）时，助人者更倾向于平等而非效率。这一现象归因于在生存和发展情况下，义务观和功利观的优先次序不同（研究 3 和 4）。我们的研究结果为现有的助人决策研究提供了启示，并加深了人们对助人者在效率与平等之间权衡的理解。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)。
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The mission of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied® is to publish original empirical investigations in experimental psychology that bridge practically oriented problems and psychological theory. The journal also publishes research aimed at developing and testing of models of cognitive processing or behavior in applied situations, including laboratory and field settings. Occasionally, review articles are considered for publication if they contribute significantly to important topics within applied experimental psychology. Areas of interest include applications of perception, attention, memory, decision making, reasoning, information processing, problem solving, learning, and skill acquisition.
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