Reconciling pro-social vs. selfish behavior: On the role of self-control

We test in the context of a dictator game the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between the temptation to act selfishly and the better judgment to act pro-socially. We manipulated the likelihood that individuals would identify self-control conflict, and we measured...

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Main Authors: Peter Martinsson, Kristian Ove R. Myrseth, Conny Wollbrant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2012-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500002278/type/journal_article