Risk Preference, Gender, Responsibility: A Cross-Cultural Study from India

IF 2.4 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Debosree Banerjee
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The study critically engages the literature on gender differences in risk-taking and investigates how the decision-making environment causes variations in risk preferences. It specifically explores two environmental factors: cultural environments and an environment that increases responsibility. Through an experiment conducted in two small-scale societies, namely, the matrilineal Khasi and the patrilineal Santal, the study reveals evidence of higher risk aversion among women compared with men within each tribe. In addition, Khasi women exhibit greater risk aversion than Santal women, while Santal men demonstrate higher risk proneness than Khasi men. These findings align with the predictions of the economy of the scale model, which explores the impact of offspring provisioning on the gendered division of high- and low-risk labor. To assess the effect of increased responsibility, participants played the same game twice—once individually and once in groups where they were accountable for the payoffs of all group members. The results indicate that increased individual risk aversion further amplifies risk aversion in group settings. Overall, these findings suggest that psychological developments are influenced by a complex interplay between personality traits and the decision-making environment.
风险偏好、性别、责任:来自印度的跨文化研究
该研究批判性地引用了有关冒险中性别差异的文献,并调查了决策环境如何导致风险偏好的变化。它具体探讨了两个环境因素:文化环境和增加责任感的环境。通过在两个小规模社会,即母系的Khasi和父系的Santal进行的一项实验,该研究揭示了每个部落中女性比男性更厌恶风险的证据。此外,Khasi女性比Santal女性表现出更大的风险厌恶,而Santal男性比Khasi男性表现出更高的风险倾向。这些发现与规模经济模型的预测一致,该模型探讨了后代供应对高风险和低风险劳动力性别划分的影响。为了评估责任增加的影响,参与者玩了两次相同的游戏——一次是单独玩,一次是分组玩,他们对所有小组成员的报酬负责。结果表明,个体风险厌恶情绪的增加进一步放大了群体环境中的风险厌恶情绪。总的来说,这些发现表明,心理发展受到人格特征和决策环境之间复杂相互作用的影响。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology publishes papers that focus on the interrelationships between culture and psychological processes. Submitted manuscripts may report results from either cross-cultural comparative research or results from other types of research concerning the ways in which culture (and related concepts such as ethnicity) affect the thinking and behavior of individuals as well as how individual thought and behavior define and reflect aspects of culture. Review papers and innovative reformulations of cross-cultural theory will also be considered. Studies reporting data from within a single nation should focus on cross-cultural perspective. Empirical studies must be described in sufficient detail to be potentially replicable.
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