Unequal but not separate: Emergence of rich–poor cooperation in resource exchange.

Addressing inequality is a critical challenge for society as a whole and requires sustained efforts to promote fairness and opportunity for all. Filling in the resource gap across social classes is essential in reducing inequality. Previous studies have revealed that ingroup favouritism hinders the...

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Publicado en:Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 431 - 445
Autores principales: Chen, Jiayu, Igarashi, Tasuku
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2023
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          Social Class
          Social Identity
          Interpersonal Relations
          Economic Factors
          Games
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Cooperative Behavior Evaluation
          Human
          Japan
          China
          Ethnological Research
          Descriptive Statistics
          Trust
          Social Mobility
      ab: Addressing inequality is a critical challenge for society as a whole and requires sustained efforts to promote fairness and opportunity for all. Filling in the resource gap across social classes is essential in reducing inequality. Previous studies have revealed that ingroup favouritism hinders the rich from cooperating with the poor and expands the wealth gap. Nevertheless, how to find ways of narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor remains an open question. Inducing rich–poor cooperation could be effective in eliciting resource flow across classes. In this study, two experiments using a modified Prisoner's Dilemma game were conducted in Japan (N = 213) and China (N = 150) to examine whether highlighting partners' cooperativeness under permeable group boundaries induces rich–poor cooperation. All participants were allocated to the rich group and participated in the game with programmed rich‐ or poor‐group partner bots, whose cooperation rates were manipulated. Despite the initial resource disparities between participants and the partner bots, participants were more likely to select and cooperate with cooperative poor‐group partners than with non‐cooperative rich‐group partners. Generalized trust played an important role in the enhancement of rich–poor cooperation. The findings shed light on the possibility of reducing inequality and promoting social mobility in society.
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