Abstract:
Group bias and fairness preferences are common social phenomena in life. During social
interactions, researchers usually use the ultimatum game paradigm to explore individuals’ perceptions
of fairness, and furtherly discover that the emergence of group biases directly affects individuals’ fairness
preferences. Group bias and fairness preference both have an effect on the individual’s emotional
experience. In order to explore the emotion regulation effect of unconscious acceptance strategies
and conscious acceptance strategies on fairness preferences and group biases, this research aims to
test subjects’ rejection rates and subjective emotional experience score, while unconscious acceptance
strategies are motivated by connecting words to form sentences and conscious acceptance strategies are
motivated by special instructions. The results show that the acceptance strategy effectively regulates the
emotional state and behavior of individuals’ perception of fairness under the group bias; the unconscious
acceptance strategy strongly promotes the in-group bias under unfair distribution, which verifies the fair
preference automatic hypothesis; the conscious acceptance strategy strongly promotes the derogation of
out-groups under fair distribution, which verifies the controlled-processing hypothesis.
群体偏见和公平偏好是生活中常见的社会现象。在群际互动中,研究者通常使用最后通牒博弈范式探讨个体的公平感知,并进一步发现群体偏见的产生直接对个体的公平偏好产生影响。群体偏见和公平偏好都会对个体的情绪体验产生作用,为了探讨无意识接受策略和有意识接受策略对公平偏好和群体偏见产生的情绪的调节作用,本研究采用句子重组任务和特殊指导语启动被试使用无意识接受策略和有意识接受策略,测查其对经济博弈中分配方案的拒绝率和主观情绪体验评分。结果发现,接受策略有效的调节了群体偏见下个体对公平感知的情绪状态及行为;无意识接受策略更强的促进不公平分配下的内群体偏爱,验证了公平偏好自动假说;有意识接受策略更强的促进公平分配下的外群体贬损,验证了公平偏好控制假说。