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- Title
The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment.
- Authors
Lu Sun; Peishan Tan; You Cheng; Jingwei Chen; Chen Qu
- Abstract
Third-party punishment, as an altruistic behavior, was found to relate to inequity aversion in previous research. Previous researchers have found that altruistic tendencies, as an individual difference, can affect resource division. Here, using the event-related potential (ERP) technique and a third-party punishment of dictator game paradigm, we explored third-party punishments in high and low altruists and recorded their EEG data. Behavioral results showed high altruists (vs. low altruists) were more likely to punish the dictators in unfair offers. ERP results revealed that patterns of medial frontal negativity (MFN) were modulated by unfairness. For high altruists, high unfair offers (90:10) elicited a larger MFN than medium unfair offers (70:30) and fair offers (50:50). By contrast, for low altruists, fair offers elicited larger MFN while high unfair offers caused the minimal MFN. It is suggested that the altruistic tendency effect influences fairness consideration in the early stage of evaluation. Moreover, the results provide further neuroscience evidence for inequity aversion.
- Subjects
ALTRUISM; CONDUCT of life; BENEVOLENCE; FAIRNESS; PUNISHMENT
- Publication
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015, p1
- ISSN
1664-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00820