Earned entitlements reshape perceived fairness in resource division.

Evidence

These two experiments suggest that participants attribute greater right to the player who has earned the money. When it is the dictator who has earned the money, she is less generous, and when it is the recipient who has earned the money, she is more generous than in the baseline condition. Having earned the money to be shared entitles the earner to a larger share, which is what a fairness account would predict. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 117

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Big God / partner-choice framework: entitlement undermines the solidarity that religious moral routines aim to enforce — earned resources legitimize withholding. — connects to: Fairness-driven giving is distinct from welfare-trade-off favoritism. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 16; Fairness in economic games tracks perceived entitlement rather than raw contribution. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 467; Human fairness means overriding merit to aid the needy. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 591 (+5 more)
• ADDENDUM: Closely parallels the fumi-e analysis: both concern how visible, public mechanisms (earning rituals vs. apostasy rituals) reorganize transfer/cooperation norms.

Related

• Fairness in economic games tracks perceived entitlement rather than raw contribution. (similarity 0.90)
• Earned entitlements and game framing change how much people share. (similarity 0.86)
• Fairness judgments track each participant’s earned contribution, not just payoff equality. (similarity 0.84)
• Fairness evolved to distribute payoffs by input, not equally. (similarity 0.83)
• Fairness-driven giving is distinct from welfare-trade-off favoritism. (similarity 0.82)
• Shared fairness intuitions cannot explain distributive variability when beliefs and situations are held constant. (similarity 0.82)
• Dictators invoke entitlement to justify keeping shared stakes for themselves. (similarity 0.82)
• People disagree persistently about what makes inequality fair (similarity 0.81)
• Human fairness means overriding merit to aid the needy. (similarity 0.80)
• Dictators respect others’ earned property but not windfall money. (similarity 0.80)
• Humans pervasively prefer meritocratic benefit distributions. (similarity 0.80)
• Recasting an economic game as mutual hospitality drops offers to locally appropriate sharing norms. (similarity 0.80)
• Seemingly fair outcomes can arise from self-referent loss aversion rather than fairness preferences. (similarity 0.79)
• Earning money dramatically reduces dictators’ willingness to share it. (similarity 0.79)
• People accept large inequalities they judge as earned or deserved. (similarity 0.79)