Observing others give & take: A computational account of bystanders’ feelings and actions
Fig 2
Feelings are negative when observing selfish behavior, positive when observing equal splits, and neutral when observing generosity.
Observers report negative feelings when observing allocators act selfishly and positive feeling when observing equal splits. Surprisingly, feelings were not positive (nor negative) when observing generosity. This is true both in Experiment 1 (A, left panel) and Experiment 2 (B, right panel). The grey dots represent the mean feelings rating per allocator type for each participant. Red diamonds represent the average of these means. The box plots show the distribution of the participants’ mean feelings about each allocator: boxes indicate 25–75% interquartile range, whiskers extend from the first and third quartiles to most extreme data point within 1.5 × interquartile range, and the median is shown as a horizontal line within this box. *** p < 0.001.