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Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network

Hruschka, Daniel, Efferson, Charles, Jiang, Ting, Falletta-Cowden, Ashlan, Sigurdsson, Sveinn, McNamara, Rita, Sands, Madeline, Munira, Shirajum, Slingerland, Edward, Henrich, Joseph·2014·Human Nature
DOI 10.1007/s12110-014-9217-0
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Anthropologists have documented substantial cross-society variation in people's willingness to treat strangers with impartial, universal norms versus favoring members of their local community. Researchers have proposed several adaptive accounts for these differences. One variant of the pathogen stress hypothesis predicts that people will be more likely to favor local in-group members when they are under greater infectious disease threat. The material security hypothesis instead proposes that institutions that permit people to meet their basic needs through impartial interactions with strangers reinforce a tendency toward impartiality, whereas people lacking such institutions must rely on local community members to meet their basic needs. Some studies have examined these hypotheses using self-reported preferences, but not with behavioral measures. We conducted behavioral experiments in eight diverse societies that measure individuals' willingness to favor in-group members by ignoring an impartial rule. Consistent with the material security hypothesis, members of societies enjoying better-quality government services and food security show a stronger preference for following an impartial rule over investing in their local in-group. Our data show no support for the pathogen stress hypothesis as applied to favoring in-groups and instead suggest that favoring in-group members more closely reflects a general adaptive fit with social institutions that have arisen in each society.

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Authors
Hruschka, D., Efferson, C., Jiang, T., Falletta-Cowden, A., Sigurdsson, S., McNamara, R., Sands, M., Munira, S., Slingerland, E., & Henrich, J.
Affiliations
  • Arizona State University (US)
  • University of Zurich (CH)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Field Museum of Natural History (US)
  • Yale New Haven Hospital (US)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
Hruschka, Daniel
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Venue
Human Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2014-10-07
Volume
25
Issue
4
Pages
567-579
ISSN
  • 1045-6767 (ISSN-L)
  • 1936-4776
DOI
10.1007/s12110-014-9217-0
OpenAlex
W1967450864
Cited by
123
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3
FWCI
32.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Human Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • IRIS (submittedVersion)
  • SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
Keywords
impartiality, in-group favoritism, social institutions, government quality, food security, social networks, cross-cultural variation
MeSH terms
Cross-Cultural Comparison, Government, Humans, Residence Characteristics, Social Support, Stress, Physiological, Social Networking

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