“Clothe yourselves with humility”: Humility can promote fairness

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112938

Xin Wang , Chuhua Zheng , Yanhong Wu

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Abstract

Humility, as a virtue and personality trait, promotes the development of other positive qualities in individuals. Across two studies, we employed economic game paradigms dictator game (DG) and ultimatum game (UG) to measure individuals' fairness behavior and explore the role of humility on fairness. The results revealed that individuals with high levels of trait humility behaved more fairly (Study 1, N = 72), and humility priming could also promote fairness behavior (Study 2, N = 60). Furthermore, humble individuals exhibited higher levels of fairness perceptions in the DG, while they adhered more closely to their internal fairness perceptions in the UG, despite there being no significant difference in fairness perceptions compared to the control group. Our findings suggest that humility promotes individuals to behave more fairly while holding higher fairness perceptions. These results contribute to a deeper understanding of the value of humility, and offer a feasible pathway to promote fairness and harmony in society.

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"以谦卑自居"：谦逊可以促进公平

谦逊作为一种美德和人格特质，能促进个人其他积极品质的发展。在两项研究中，我们采用经济博弈范式独裁者博弈（DG）和最后通牒博弈（UG）来测量个体的公平行为，并探讨谦逊对公平的作用。结果显示，特质谦逊水平高的个体表现得更公平（研究 1，人数 = 72），谦逊引物也能促进公平行为（研究 2，人数 = 60）。此外，谦逊的个体在 DG 中表现出更高水平的公平感知，而在 UG 中，尽管与对照组相比，他们在公平感知上没有显著差异，但他们更坚持自己内心的公平感知。我们的研究结果表明，谦逊会促进个体在持有更高的公平感知的同时做出更公平的行为。这些结果有助于加深对谦逊价值的理解，并为促进社会公平与和谐提供了一条可行的途径。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

8.50

自引率

4.70%

发文量

577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.