The influence of third-party's power on multi-player fairness decision-making

IF 2.1 4区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Acta Psychologica Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI:10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105088

Xiaoqing Lu , Te Li , Baoming Li , Zhong Yang

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Abstract

People's fairness decision-making depends not only on whether they themselves are treated fairly, but also on their consideration of other members of society. Our study employed the modified three-person ultimatum game and combined it with computational modeling methods to investigate the influence of third-party's decision making power (powerless vs. power) on multi-player fairness decision-making. Our results indicated that participants exhibited varying degrees of inequity aversion to different players. The computational modeling results showed that people enforced the fairness norm when the third party was powerless, and enforced both the fairness norm and the social comparison norm when the third party had power. Moreover, the diffusion of responsibility might attenuate punishment to norm violations in the presence of power third party. This study shed light on the influence of third party's power and improved the inequity aversion theory in multi-player context, and may contribute to promoting cooperation and norm compliance behavior.

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第三方权力对多人公平决策的影响

人们的公平决策不仅取决于他们自己是否受到公平对待，还取决于他们对社会其他成员的考虑。本研究采用改进的三人最后通牒博弈，并结合计算建模方法，研究了第三方决策权力（无权与有权）对多人公平决策的影响。我们的研究结果表明，参与者对不同的参与者表现出不同程度的不公平厌恶。计算模型结果表明，当第三方无权力时，人们执行公平规范；当第三方有权力时，人们同时执行公平规范和社会比较规范。此外，在权力第三方存在的情况下，责任的分散可能会减轻对违反规范行为的惩罚。本研究揭示了第三方权力的影响，完善了多参与者情境下的不公平厌恶理论，并可能有助于促进合作和规范遵从行为。

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Acta Psychologica PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

5.60%

发文量

274

审稿时长

36 weeks

期刊介绍： Acta Psychologica publishes original articles and extended reviews on selected books in any area of experimental psychology. The focus of the Journal is on empirical studies and evaluative review articles that increase the theoretical understanding of human capabilities.