People's concern with maintaining their individual reputation powerfully drives judgment and decision making. But humans also identify strongly with groups. Concerns about group-based reputation may similarly shape people's psychology, perhaps especially in contexts where shifts in group reputation can have strategic consequences. Do individuals allow their concern with their group's reputation to shape their reactions to even large-scale societal suffering versus benefits? Examining both affective responses and financially incentivized behavior of partisans in the United States, five preregistered experiments (N = 7,534) demonstrate that group-based reputational incentives can weaken-and sometimes nearly eliminate-affective differentiation between present-term societal harms and benefits. This can occur even when these societal harms and benefits are substantial-including economic devastation and national security threats-and when the consequences impact ingroup members. Individuals' sensitivity to group-based reputation can even cause them to divert resources from more effective to less effective charities. We provide evidence that partisans care about group-based reputation in part because it holds strategic value, positioning their group to improve its standing vis-a-vis the outgroup. By allowing group-based reputational incentives to reduce their sensitivity to societal outcomes, partisans may play into the other side's cynical narratives about their disregard for human suffering, damaging bridges to cooperation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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基于群体的声誉激励会削弱对社会危害和好处的敏感性。


人们对维护个人声誉的关注有力地推动了判断和决策。但人类也强烈认同群体。对基于群体的声誉的担忧可能同样影响人们的心理，也许尤其是在群体声誉的变化可能产生战略后果的情况下。个人是否允许他们对群体声誉的关注影响他们对大规模社会苦难与利益的反应？研究了美国游击队员的情感反应和经济激励行为，五个预先注册的实验 （N = 7,534） 表明，基于群体的声誉激励可以削弱——有时几乎消除——当前社会伤害和利益之间的情感区分。即使这些社会危害和好处很大（包括经济破坏和国家安全威胁），并且当其后果影响到内部群体成员时，也可能发生这种情况。个人对基于群体的声誉的敏感性甚至会导致他们将资源从更有效的慈善机构转移到效果较差的慈善机构。我们提供的证据表明，党派人士关心基于群体的声誉，部分原因是它具有战略价值，使他们的群体能够提高相对于外部群体的地位。通过允许基于群体的声誉激励降低他们对社会结果的敏感性，游击队可能会利用对方关于他们无视人类苦难的愤世嫉俗的叙述，破坏合作的桥梁。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。