AUTHOR=Corr Philip J. , Hargreaves Heap Shaun P. , Seger Charles R. , Tsutsui Kei 

TITLE=An experiment on individual ‘parochial altruism’ revealing no connection between individual ‘altruism’ and individual ‘parochialism’

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2015

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01261

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01261

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Is parochial altruism an attribute of <underline>individual</underline> behavior? This is the question we address with an experiment. We examine whether the individual pro-sociality that is revealed in the public goods and trust games when interacting with fellow group members helps predict individual parochialism, as measured by the in-group bias (i.e., the difference in these games in pro-sociality when interacting with own group members as compared with members of another group). We find that it is not. An examination of the Big-5 personality predictors of each behavior reinforces this result: they are different. In short, knowing how pro-social individuals are with respect to fellow group members does <underline>not</underline> help predict their parochialism.</p>