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.

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欺凌动机演变的跨文化和跨组织证据。

我们报告了第一个跨文化和跨组织的证据，证明欺凌动机的演变。通过在美国、日本以及欺凌组织和非欺凌组织的成员中进行的实验，我们展示了一组不变的核心欺凌预测因子。特别是，我们表明，对近期群体利益的看法（这本来可以被新群体成员利用）大大增加了所有样本中所需的欺凌严重程度。根据人类组织心理学和可靠抑制欺凌行为的难度对结果进行了讨论。