Ethnic discrimination unlearned: experience in the repeated Trust Game reduces trust bias.
Front Psychol
; 14: 1139128, 2023.
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Discrimination toward ethnic minorities is a persistent societal problem. One reason behind this is a bias in trust people tend to trust their ingroup and comparatively distrust outgroups.Methods:
In this study, we investigated whether and how people change their explicit trust bias with respect to ethnicity based on behavioral interactions with in- and outgroup members in a modified Trust Game.Results:
Subjects' initial explicit trust bias disappeared after the game. The change was largest for ingroup members who behaved unfairly, and the reduction of trust bias generalized to a small sample of new in- and outgroup members. Reinforcement learning models showed subjects' learning was best explained by a model with only one learning rate, indicating that subjects learned from trial outcomes and partner types equally during investment.Discussion:
We conclude that subjects can reduce bias through simple learning, in particular by learning that ingroup members can behave unfairly.
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Prognostic_studies
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Front Psychol
Año:
2023
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Article
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Alemania
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CH
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SWITZERLAND