The effects of social exclusion on distributive fairness judgements and cooperative behaviour

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12810

Qian Sun, Welmer E. Molenmaker, Yongfang Liu, Eric van Dijk

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Abstract

In this article, we investigate how being socially excluded (vs. included) affects people's distributive fairness judgements and their willingness to cooperate with others in subsequent interactions. For this purpose, we conducted three experiments in which we assessed individual differences in having experienced being socially excluded (Experiment 1, N = 164), and manipulated social exclusion (Experiment 2, N = 120; Experiment 3, N = 492). We studied how this impacted fairness judgements of three different outcome distributions (disadvantageous inequality, advantageous inequality, and equality) both within‐participants (Experiments 1 and 2) and between‐participants (Experiment 3). To assess behavioural consequences, we then also assessed participants' cooperation in a social dilemma game. Across the three experiments, we consistently found that social exclusion impacted fairness judgements. Compared to inclusion, excluded participants judged disadvantageous inequality as more unfair and advantageous inequality as less unfair. Moreover, compared to socially included participants, socially excluded participants were more willing to cooperate after experiencing advantageous rather than disadvantageous inequality, and feelings of acceptance served as a mediator in these associations.

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社会排斥对分配公平性判断和合作行为的影响

在本文中，我们研究了被社会排斥（与被社会包容）如何影响人们的分配公平性判断以及他们在随后的互动中与他人合作的意愿。为此，我们进行了三项实验，其中我们评估了曾被社会排斥的个体差异（实验 1，N = 164），并操纵了社会排斥（实验 2，N = 120；实验 3，N = 492）。我们研究了这如何影响参与者内部（实验 1 和 2）和参与者之间（实验 3）对三种不同结果分布（不利不平等、有利不平等和平等）的公平性判断。为了评估行为后果，我们还评估了参与者在社会两难游戏中的合作情况。在三个实验中，我们一致发现社会排斥影响了公平判断。与融入社会的参与者相比，被排斥的参与者会认为不利的不平等更不公平，而有利的不平等则更不公平。此外，与被社会接纳的参与者相比，被社会排斥的参与者在经历了有利而非不利的不平等后更愿意合作，而接纳感在这些关联中起到了中介作用。

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British Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Social Psychology publishes work from scholars based in all parts of the world, and manuscripts that present data on a wide range of populations inside and outside the UK. It publishes original papers in all areas of social psychology including: • social cognition • attitudes • group processes • social influence • intergroup relations • self and identity • nonverbal communication • social psychological aspects of personality, affect and emotion • language and discourse Submissions addressing these topics from a variety of approaches and methods, both quantitative and qualitative are welcomed. We publish papers of the following kinds: • empirical papers that address theoretical issues; • theoretical papers, including analyses of existing social psychological theories and presentations of theoretical innovations, extensions, or integrations; • review papers that provide an evaluation of work within a given area of social psychology and that present proposals for further research in that area; • methodological papers concerning issues that are particularly relevant to a wide range of social psychologists; • an invited agenda article as the first article in the first part of every volume. The editorial team aims to handle papers as efficiently as possible. In 2016, papers were triaged within less than a week, and the average turnaround time from receipt of the manuscript to first decision sent back to the authors was 47 days.