Does Belief in Free Will Increase Support for Economic Inequality?

被引：10

作者：

Mercier, Brett ^{[1
]}

Wiwad, Dylan ^{[2
]}

Piff, Paul K. ^{[1
]}

Akin, Lara B. ^{[3
]}

Robinson, Angela R. ^{[1
]}

Shariff, Azim ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Psychol Sci, Social & Behav Sci Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[2] Northwestern Univ, Dept Psychol, Kellogg Sch Management, Evanston, IL USA

[3] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Psychol, Univ Dr, Burnaby, BC, Canada

[4] Univ British Columbia, Dept Psychol, West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada

来源：

COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY | 2020年 / 6卷 / 01期

关键词：

Inequality; Morality; Political Psychology; Free Will; RESPONSIBILITY; DETERMINISM; CHOICE;

D O I：

10.1525/collabra.303

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Does belief in free will increase support for economic inequality? Five studies using diverse measures and methods tested this question. Study 1 finds belief in free will is associated with increased support for inequality. Study 2 manipulates belief in free will and does not find evidence that this changes support for inequality. Studies 3 and 4 find that people are more willing to support inequality in a hypothetical universe where free will exists compared to one where it does not (dz = 0.10-0.13), indicating that people believe the existence of free will justifies inequality. However, a between-subjects design in Study 5 fails to replicate this finding. Overall, our results suggest that if belief in free will increases support for economic inequality, the effect is likely small and potentially sensitive to the methods used to detect it.

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