A study published in Psychological Science and conducted by scientists at Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, shows that people make choices that show preference to their parents even over their friends. In this study. either the person's parent would bear all the reward of a card game task and the friend all the loss or the friend would bear the the reward and the parent would bear any losses. The experiment showed that when the subjects knew they were playing to benefit their parents, they were over 25% more likely to continue the game - which benefited their parents. The study found that this occurred equally regardless of age and ther was no difference between men and women. The study can be found at:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618778497
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618778497
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