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Political Orientation is Associated with Behavior in Public-Goods- and Trust-Games.
- Source :
- Political Behavior; Mar2022, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p23-48, 26p, 4 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- To examine whether political orientation is reflected in actual behavior, we applied classical paradigms of behavioral economics, namely the Public-Goods- (PGG) and the Trust-Game (TG) which constitute measures of cooperativeness, interpersonal trust and reciprocity respectively in a large German sample of N = 454. Participants intending to vote for right-of-center-parties showed significantly lower monetary transfers in both games than those intending to vote for left-of-center-parties. Accordingly, both scores were negatively associated with self-assessed conservatism and support for policies advocated by Germany's right-of-center-parties, while showing positive correlations with the support of policies left-of-center-parties advocate. Interestingly, both measures also show distinct correlational patterns with Right-Wing-Authoritarianism and Social-Dominance-Orientation. None of these patterns applied to the Lottery-Game measuring unspecific risk-tolerance. We conclude by discussing potential psychological mechanisms mediating the relationships between ideology and actual social behavior as well as differences in experimental design to explain the deviant pattern of (null-) results in former studies relating ideology to behavior in game-theoretic paradigms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01909320
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Political Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155382240
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-020-09606-5