Past research demonstrates that adults give more generously or selfishly depending on the situation. Adults have a tendency to be more generous when their giving behavior is publicized, and they prefer to give to people who have fewer resources than they do. In the current study, I investigated the role of anonymity and differences in privilege between givers and recipients. After completing a financial privilege questionnaire, participants were given a financial privilege score. At the end of the experiment, participants were told they had earned ten entries into a raffle, but they could give their raffle entries to a participant who was a) equally financially privileged or b) less financially privileged than themselves. Participants had the choice to be anonymous or not anonymous in their donation. On average, participants gave half of their raffle entries, regardless of the financial privilege of their recipient. The current study explores how individual values predict giving behavior, and argues that on this task, adults gave equally but failed to rectify inequality. This behavior suggests adults perceive fairness on a much smaller scale, and do not seek to rectify larger inequalities between groups.
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