In-group bias trumps amount of resource bias (자원의 양과 내집단이 아동의 선호도에 미치는 상대적 영향성 탐색)

Yeoul Shin (신여울); Jo, Woori (조우리); PARK, DAEUN (박다은)

In-group bias trumps amount of resource bias

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2022, 35(4), pp.29-48
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
Received : March 21, 2022
Accepted : December 1, 2022
Published : December 15, 2022

Yeoul Shin ¹, Jo, Woori ², PARK, DAEUN ³

¹성균관대학교 심리학과
²충북대학교 아동복지학과 박사수료
³성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

From an early childhood, children evaluate others based on the amount of resources, and they tend to prefer wealthy individuals over poor ones. What is less clear is how strong this bias is in children. The present study probes the relative strength of amount of resource bias and in-group bias, a robust bias in children. Prior to, conducting our analysis we first confirmed that four to six year-old children preferred peers with more resources (Study 1a) and those who were in the same group (wearing the same color t-shirt that they were wearing; Study 1b). Importantly, children preferred an in-group member with less resources over a outside the with more resources, suggesting that the in-group membership is a stronger social cue than the amount of resource cue in early childhood.

KEYWORDS

amount of resources, minimal group, in-group, peer preference

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