Incentivising the Social Discounting Task: A Laboratory Experiment

Booysen, Frederik; Munro, Alistair; Guvuriro, Sevias; Moloi, Tshepo; Campher, Celeste

doi:10.1111/saje.12191

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“…Therefore, additional non-hypothetical scenarios may provide insight beyond self-report to capture how participants across different cultures would behave during the social discounting task. Currently, studies exploring whether hypothetical social discounting outcomes are similar to real outcomes have only measured within-culture similarities and differences (29, 30), with different results. Thus, future cross-cultural social discounting research should further examine real vs. hypothetical outcomes.…”

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Quantitative Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Discounting for Gains and Losses

Stegall

Collette

Kinjo

et al. 2019

Front. Public Health

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Social discounting is when resource allocation decreases as social distance increases. Studies fitting different quantitative models to social discounting data have shown that a q-exponential function based on Tsallis' statistics best fits loss data, whereas a hyperbolic power function best fits gain data. However, a social discounting sign effect, where losses are discounted less than equivalent gains, has not been consistently found. This study fit four different quantitative social discounting models to gain and loss data for 40 United States (US) participants. We compared quantitative model fits to previous studies collected with Japanese and German participants to determine if (1) different quantitative social discounting models best fit loss and gain data, (2) US participants discounted less gains than Japanese participants, but not losses, and (3) US participants showed the sign effect. Results showed that the q-exponential function and the hyperbolic power function best fit median loss and gain data, respectively. There were no significant absolute differences between cultures for gains or losses, and US participants showed a robust sign effect. While most results for US participants were consistent with previous data, future cross-cultural social discounting studies are needed that manipulate sign as well as reward magnitude to determine best quantitative model fits. Social discounting results are also discussed in relation to their application to important health behaviors such as smoking and obesity.

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Quantitative Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Discounting for Gains and Losses

Stegall

Collette

Kinjo

et al. 2019

Front. Public Health

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Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity

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Derrington²,

Benistant³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Social discounting predicts that one’s concern for others decreases with increasing social distance. Cultural dimensions may influence this social behavior. Here, we used a dictator game, in which the participants and real members of their social entourage profited from the partition of the endowments determined by the participant, to compare how Chinese and French university students shared endowments with people at different social distances. We tested two hypotheses based on the concepts of kinship premium and cultural collectivism. Stronger ties between close family members were expected among Chinese. This may predict a larger “kinship premium,” i.e., increased generosity to family members at close social distances, in Chinese relative to French participants. Similarly, because collectivism is thought to be stronger in Asian than western societies, greater generosity at larger social distances might also be expected among Chinese participants. The results showed that Chinese were more generous than French at close social distances but discounted more as social distance increased. This difference between French and Chinese was confined to family members and no significant difference in generosity was observed between French and Chinese for non-family members at any social distance. Our findings evidence a stronger kinship premium among Chinese than French students, and no significant effect of cultural collectivism.

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Incentivising the Social Discounting Task: A Laboratory Experiment

Cited by 2 publications

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Quantitative Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Discounting for Gains and Losses

Quantitative Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Discounting for Gains and Losses

Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity

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