The research group of Associate Professor Yu Igarashi of Nagoya University Graduate School of Education and Development Science and Assistant Professor Soichi Tamai of Kochi University of Technology Informatics is a small group when excluding a specific person from the group such as dismissing employees at work. I found that it is hard to hurt my heart if the target is a person who only makes a profit.
According to Nagoya University, the survey assumes a situation where the experimental participants and a group of four fictitious people are making profits while cooperating with each other, but the group cannot survive unless one person is excluded due to the decrease in resources.We asked the participants to choose a person to be excluded from two people, one who would bring great benefits to the group and the other who would bring little benefit to the group, and asked how painful it would be.
When the series of work was carried out 40 times in total while changing the number of profits brought to the group, the more the difference in the profits given to the group of excluded people, the easier it is for those who have less contribution to the group to be excluded. It turned out.It was also revealed that even if it is assumed that the person will bring a lot of benefits to the individual participants of the experiment, the person who preferentially excludes the person who benefits the group is selected.
In addition, it was found that the more the disfellowshipped person brought more benefit to the group, the more painful the experiment participants were in deciding the disfellowship.The research group believes that even if the people who have little benefit to the group are excluded, it will not hurt their hearts.
Paper information:[European Journal of Social Psychology] Odd man out for everyone: The justification of ostracism to maximize the whole group's benefits
