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SUBMITTER: Corr PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4542132 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Corr Philip J PJ Hargreaves Heap Shaun P SP Seger Charles R CR Tsutsui Kei K
Frontiers in psychology 20150820
Is parochial altruism an attribute of individual behavior? This is the question we address with an experiment. We examine whether the individual pro-sociality that is revealed in the public goods and trust games when interacting with fellow group members helps predict individual parochialism, as measured by the in-group bias (i.e., the difference in these games in pro-sociality when interacting with own group members as compared with members of another group). We find that it is not. An examinat ...[more]