Feeling wronged leads to entitlement and selfishness
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Five studies demonstrate that feeling wronged leads to a sense of entitlement and to selfish behavior. In Study 1, participants who were instructed to recall a time when their lives were unfair were more likely to refuse to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants who recalled a time when they were bored. In Study 2, the same manipulation increased intentions to engage in a number of selfish behaviors, and this effect was mediated by self-reported entitlement to obtain positive (and avoid negative) outcomes. In Study 3, participants who lost a computer game for an unfair reason (a glitch in the program) requested a more selfish money allocation for a future task than did participants who lost the game for a fair reason, and this effect was again mediated by entitlement. In Studies 4 and 5, bad luck from a fair, random system led to the same kinds of effects for men. In Study 4, students (especially men) who received bad numbers in a housing lottery expressed less intention to behave charitably. In Study 5, men who were assigned to bad outcomes by the roll of a die were less willing to help out by signing up for an additional experiment than were men in the control condition, and self-reported entitlement again mediated the effect.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Zitek, Emily Maria | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology | |
| Primary advisor | Monin, Benoît, 1972- | |
| Thesis advisor | Monin, Benoît, 1972- | |
| Thesis advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- | |
| Thesis advisor | Mullen, Elizabeth | |
| Advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- | |
| Advisor | Mullen, Elizabeth |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Emily Maria Zitek. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Emily Maria Zitek
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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