期刊名称:Evolutionary Psychology: an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
印刷版ISSN:1474-7049
出版年度:2019
卷号:17
DOI:10.1177/1474704919887943
语种:English
出版社:Ian Pitchford, Ed.& Pub
摘要:We report the first cross-cultural and cross-organizational evidence for an evolved hazing motivation. Using experiments performed in the United States, Japan, and among members of a hazing and a nonhazing organization, we demonstrate an invariant set of core hazing predictors. In particular, we show that the perception of near-term group benefits, which would have been ancestrally exploitable by new group members, substantially increases desired hazing severity in all samples. Results are discussed in light of human organizational psychology and the difficulty of reliably suppressing hazing behavior.