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dc.contributor.authorSznycer, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorLopez Seal, Maria Florencia
dc.contributor.authorSell, Aaron
dc.contributor.authorLim, Julian
dc.contributor.authorPorat, Roni
dc.contributor.authorShalvi, Shaul
dc.contributor.authorHalperin, Eran
dc.contributor.authorCosmides, Leda
dc.contributor.authorTooby, John
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-22T04:29:47Z
dc.date.available2017-09-22T04:29:47Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0027-8424
dc.identifier.doi10.1073/pnas.1703801114
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/347157
dc.description.abstractWhy do people support economic redistribution? Hypotheses include inequity aversion, a moral sense that inequality is intrinsically unfair, and cultural explanations such as exposure to and assimilation of culturally transmitted ideologies. However, humans have been interacting with worse-off and better-off individuals over evolutionary time, and our motivational systems may have been naturally selected to navigate the opportunities and challenges posed by such recurrent interactions. We hypothesize that modern redistribution is perceived as an ancestral scene involving three notional players: the needy other, the better-off other, and the actor herself. We explore how three motivational systems—compassion, self-interest, and envy—guide responses to the needy other and the better-off other, and how they pattern responses to redistribution. Data from the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Israel support this model. Endorsement of redistribution is independently predicted by dispositional compassion, dispositional envy, and the expectation of personal gain from redistribution. By contrast, a taste for fairness, in the sense of (i) universality in the application of laws and standards, or (ii) low variance in group-level payoffs, fails to predict attitudes about redistribution.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNational Academy of Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom8420
dc.relation.ispartofpageto8425
dc.relation.ispartofissue31
dc.relation.ispartofjournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
dc.relation.ispartofvolume114
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160899
dc.titleSupport for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSell, Aaron N.


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