Religious affiliations of Chinese people and prosocial behavior: evidence from field experiments

Xia, Weiwei; Guo, Xiaohan; Luo, Jun; Ye, Hang; Chen, Yefeng; Chen, Shu; Xia, Weisen

doi:10.1007/s10058-022-00317-3

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“…In other words, our subjects behaved in a manner consistent with receiving negative utility from the other player’s positive payoffs. Social preference has been shown to depend on a number of factors, such as culture [ 40 ], social identity [ 41 ] and religion [ 42 ]. The subjects in our experiment seem to display different preferences towards the payoff of their matched partner.…”

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Revisiting the Asymmetric Matching Pennies Contradiction in China

Leng,

Lian,

Lien

et al. 2023

Behavioral Sciences

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The asymmetric matching pennies contradiction posits that contrary to the prediction of mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium, experimental subjects’ choices are, in practice, based heavily on the magnitudes of their own payoffs. Own-payoff effects are robustly confirmed in the literature. Closely following the experimental setups in the literature which support the contradiction, we conduct a series of asymmetric matching pennies games in China, hypothesizing play which is closer to equilibrium frequencies than previously found. Contrary to previous experiments which were conducted in the United States, we find that there are essentially no own-payoff effects among Row players who face large payoff asymmetry. In a Quantal Response Equilibrium framework allowing for altruism or spite, the behavior of our subjects corresponded to a positive spite parameter, whereas the results of previous studies corresponded to altruism. Our results may be consistent with recent psychology literature that finds people from collectivist cultures are substantially more adept at taking the perspective of others compared with people from individualist cultures, a feature of the reasoning needed to obtain mixed-strategy equilibrium.

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