Reply to Côté and Willer: New replication attempts provide no evidence that inequality moderates the effect of income on generosity
| Autor: | Stefan C. Schmukle, Boris Egloff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Generosity
Multidisciplinary Inequality media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Moderation 050105 experimental psychology Replication (computing) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Dictator game Economic inequality State (polity) Economics Household income 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Demographic economics 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117:8698-8699 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.2000311117 |
| Popis: | Cote et al. (1) provided evidence that economic inequality moderates the effect of income on generosity. In their study, individuals with higher household income were less generous in a dictator game than poorer individuals only if they resided in a US state with comparatively large economic inequality. We questioned this finding because we did not find any evidence for the postulated moderation effect of economic inequality across three studies (ref. 2; for similar replication failures see ref. 3). However, our studies were conceptual rather than direct replications as we used different measures of generosity (charitable donations, behavior in a trust game, and volunteering) and also included non-US … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: schmukle{at}uni-leipzig.de. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1 |
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