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: Kristian Ove R. Myrseth, Peter Martinsson, Conny Wollbrant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2012-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/11/111202/jdm111202.pdf