Abstract:
Fairness is an important issue in society now. In this study, we use the ultimatum game
paradigm to explore the influence of different emotions and perspectives on college students’ fairness
preferences. Students from a university who sign up for the experiment were randomly assigned to nine
groups. We conduct an experiment with 2 factors (emotion: happy, no arousal, anger and perspective:
as respondents without bystanders, as responders with bystander, and as bystanders). Two-thirds
participants were asked to recall a happy/anger experience, then they should evaluate their current
emotions. Other participants directly evaluated their current emotions. All participants should finish
ultimatum games with different perspectives (as respondents without bystanders, as responders with
bystander, and as bystanders). The results found that if the outcome is unfair, emotions can significantly
affect the fairness of the results and perspective cannot significantly affect the fairness preferences of the
results. However, if the outcome is unfair but the intention is good emotions cannot affect intentions.
That is to say, triggering anger will affect a person's preference for outcome fairness, but does not affect
preference for intentional fairness.
公平是现在社会中重要的议题,本研究采用了最后通牒博弈范式来探究不同情绪和视角对于大学生公平偏好的影响,实验为3(情绪:愉快,无唤起,愤怒)*3(视角:响应者无第三方,响应者有第三方,第三方)的被试间实验设计,结果发现情绪能显著影响结果公平的公平偏高,视角不能显著影响结果公平的公平偏好;情绪并不能影响意图公平的公平偏好。也就是说引发愤怒情绪会影响一个人结果公平偏好,但不影响意图公平偏好。