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摘要
人们对维护个人声誉的关注,是判断和决策的强大驱动力。但人类对群体也有强烈的认同感。对群体声誉的关注可能同样会影响人们的心理,尤其是在群体声誉的变化会产生战略后果的情况下。个人是否会因为对群体声誉的关注而影响他们对即使是大规模的社会苦难与利益的反应?通过对美国党派成员的情感反应和经济激励行为进行研究,五个预先登记的实验(N = 7534)表明,基于群体声誉的激励会削弱--有时甚至几乎消除--对当前社会危害和利益之间的情感区分。即使这些社会危害和利益是巨大的--包括经济破坏和国家安全威胁--而且后果影响到群体内成员时,这种情况也会发生。个人对群体声誉的敏感性甚至会导致他们将资源从更有效的慈善机构转移到效果较差的慈善机构。我们提供的证据表明,党派成员之所以关心基于群体的声誉,部分原因是声誉具有战略价值,能使他们的群体提高相对于外群体的地位。如果让基于群体的声誉激励降低了他们对社会结果的敏感度,党派人士就可能会被另一方冷嘲热讽,说他们漠视人类的痛苦,从而破坏合作的桥梁。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
Group-based reputational incentives can blunt sensitivity to societal harms and benefits.
People's concern with maintaining their individual reputation powerfully drives judgment and decision making. But humans also identify strongly with groups. Concerns about group-based reputation may similarly shape people's psychology, perhaps especially in contexts where shifts in group reputation can have strategic consequences. Do individuals allow their concern with their group's reputation to shape their reactions to even large-scale societal suffering versus benefits? Examining both affective responses and financially incentivized behavior of partisans in the United States, five preregistered experiments (N = 7,534) demonstrate that group-based reputational incentives can weaken-and sometimes nearly eliminate-affective differentiation between present-term societal harms and benefits. This can occur even when these societal harms and benefits are substantial-including economic devastation and national security threats-and when the consequences impact ingroup members. Individuals' sensitivity to group-based reputation can even cause them to divert resources from more effective to less effective charities. We provide evidence that partisans care about group-based reputation in part because it holds strategic value, positioning their group to improve its standing vis-a-vis the outgroup. By allowing group-based reputational incentives to reduce their sensitivity to societal outcomes, partisans may play into the other side's cynical narratives about their disregard for human suffering, damaging bridges to cooperation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, psychopathology, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary, but shorter articles that bridge subdisciplines will also be considered.