The Effect of Peer Acceptance on Children's Fair Distribution

Abstract

Abstract: In order to examine the influence of peer acceptance on the fair distribution among children, a total of 126 children from primary schools were investigated, adopting a mixed design of 4 (peer acceptance: popular, rejected, neglected, average) ×2 (game paradigm: ultimatum game, dictator game). The results show that, firstly, the effect of peer acceptance on the children's fair distribution depended on the game paradigm. Its main effect was significantly higher in the dictator game, in which the higher peer acceptance meant higher fairness of distribution among children. Secondly, in the dictator game tasks, the distributions among popular children were fairest, and those of rejected children were lowest. Lastly, the fair distributions of popular and neglected children were quite high across two gaming paradigms, while the fair distributions among other two groups were significantly lower in the dictator game than those in the ultimatum game.

Key words: peer acceptance, fair distribution, dictator game, ultimatum game, primary school children

摘要： 为考察同伴接纳与儿童公平分配行为之间的关系，以独裁者博弈和最后通牒博弈两种范式，对小学126名儿童进行了研究。结果表明：（1）同伴接纳对儿童公平分配行为的影响因博弈范式而不同，它主要影响了儿童在独裁者博弈中分配的公平性，在该范式中，同伴接纳水平高的儿童，公平分配行为更高；（2）在独裁者博弈中，受欢迎儿童的公平分配行为最高，被拒绝儿童的公平分配行为最低；（3）受欢迎儿童和被忽视儿童在两种范式中，都有较高的公平分配行为，而被拒绝儿童和普通儿童在独裁者博弈中分配的公平性，均显著低于他们在最后通牒博弈中的表现。

关键词: 同伴接纳, 公平分配行为, 最后通牒博弈, 独裁者博弈, 小学儿童

CLC Number:

B844.1

CHEN Xiaoyan, MO Xiufeng, ZHANG Linlin. The Effect of Peer Acceptance on Children's Fair Distribution[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2017, 15(6): 774-780.

陈晓燕, 莫秀锋, 张玲玲. 同伴接纳对儿童公平分配行为的影响[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2017, 15(6): 774-780.

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