Does competitive winning increase subsequent cheating?
Andrew M. Colman; Briony D. Pulford; Caren A. Frosch; Marta Mangiarulo; Jeremy N. V. Miles · 2022 · Royal Society Open Science
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Abstract
In this preregistered study, we attempted to replicate and substantially extend a frequently cited experiment by Schurr and Ritov, published in 2016, suggesting that winners of pairwise competitions are more likely than others to steal money in subsequent games of chance against different opponents, possibly because of an enhanced sense of entitlement among competition winners. A replication seemed desirable because of the relevance of the effect to dishonesty in everyday life, the apparent counterintuitivity of the effect, possible problems and anomalies in the original study, and above all t
Abstract by Andrew M. Colman; Briony D. Pulford; Caren A. Frosch; Marta Mangiarulo; Jeremy N. V. Miles, Royal Society Open Science (2022) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.1098/rsos.202197