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Selfish genes or selfish memes: The effect of genetic relatedness versus value similarity on altruism
dc.creator | Baucal, Aleksandar | |
dc.creator | Lazić, Aleksandra | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-19T09:16:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-04-19T09:16:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4329 | |
dc.description.abstract | Two preregistered quasi-experiments disentangled the effects of selfish genes and selfish memes on participants’ self-reported willingness to help in hypothetical everyday-favor and life-or-death situations. Memes were operationalized as the perceived level of similarity in important attitudes and values between the person participating in the study and a selected target person, assessed and reported by the participant. In Study 1 (N = 761), altruism was highest for siblings, and then for cousins and nonkin; greater memetic similarity was also associated with greater altruism; and the interaction between the factors was not significant. In Study 2 (N = 841), conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, altruism was highest for siblings, but the same for cousins and nonkin; the effect of memetic similarity was replicated; and the interaction term remained insignificant. Both studies controlled for a range of demographic and social relationship characteristics, suggesting a potentially relevant role of future contact probability and emotional closeness. We propose that, similarly to gene selfishness, meme selfishness can also bring about altruism: individuals would rather make a personal sacrifice to help memetically similar than dissimilar others because similar others have a higher chance of spreading the helper’s memes. | sr |
dc.language.iso | en | sr |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MESTD/Basic Research (BR or ON)/179018/RS// | sr |
dc.rights | openAccess | sr |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.source | Psihologija | sr |
dc.subject | selfish genes | sr |
dc.subject | selfish memes | sr |
dc.subject | helping | sr |
dc.subject | kin altruism | sr |
dc.title | Selfish genes or selfish memes: The effect of genetic relatedness versus value similarity on altruism | sr |
dc.type | article | sr |
dc.rights.license | BY | sr |
dc.citation.epage | 395 | |
dc.citation.issue | 4 | |
dc.citation.spage | 379 | |
dc.citation.volume | 55 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI211107009B | |
dc.identifier.fulltext | http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/bitstream/id/10545/0048-57052200009B.pdf | |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | sr |