Earning money dramatically reduces dictators’ willingness to share it.
Evidence
In a study by Cherry et al. (2002), half of the participants took a quiz and earned either
10 or40, depending on how well they answered. In a second phase, these participants became dictators and were each told to divide the money they had earned between themselves and another participant who had not been given the opportunity to take the quiz. The baseline condition was an otherwise identical dictator game but without the earning phase. Dictators gave much less in the earning than in the baseline condition: 79% of the10 earners and 70% of the40 earners gave nothing at all, compared to 19% and 15% in the matching no-earning conditions. By simply manipulating the dictator’s sense of entitlement, the transfer of resources is drastically reduced. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 115
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Dictators share money only to the extent recipients’ earned it, not to help them. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 122; Dictators respect others’ earned property but not windfall money. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 118
Related
- Dictators share money only to the extent recipients’ earned it, not to help them. (similarity 0.93)
- Dictators respect others’ earned property but not windfall money. (similarity 0.90)
- Dictators invoke entitlement to justify keeping shared stakes for themselves. (similarity 0.86)
- Earned entitlements and game framing change how much people share. (similarity 0.83)
- Dictator-game choices reflect competing theories of rights, not selfishness. (similarity 0.79)
- Earned entitlements reshape perceived fairness in resource division. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Dictators share money only to the extent recipients’ earned it, not to help them.
#corroborates(0.90) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 122 - Dictators respect others’ earned property but not windfall money.
#expands(0.80) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 118