The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment

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...

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Main Authors:	Sun, Lu, Tan, Peishan, Cheng, You, Chen, Jingwei, Qu, Chen
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488604/

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spelling	pubmed-44886042015-07-17 The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment Sun, Lu Tan, Peishan Cheng, You Chen, Jingwei Qu, Chen Psychology 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4488604/ /pubmed/26191009 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00820 Text en Copyright © 2015 Sun, Tan, Cheng, Chen and Qu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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author	Sun, Lu Tan, Peishan Cheng, You Chen, Jingwei Qu, Chen
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title	The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment
title_short	The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment
title_full	The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment
title_fullStr	The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment
title_full_unstemmed	The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment
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description	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.
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The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment

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