Chierchia, G;
Lesemann, FHP;
Snower, D;
Vogel, M;
Singer, T;
(2017)
Caring Cooperators and Powerful Punishers: Differential Effects of Induced Care and Power Motivation on Different Types of Economic Decision Making.
Scientific Reports
, 7
, Article 11068. 10.1038/s41598-017-11580-8.
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Abstract
Standard economic theory postulates that decisions are driven by stable context-insensitive preferences, while motivation psychology suggests they are driven by distinct context-sensitive motives with distinct evolutionary goals and characteristic psycho-physiological and behavioral patterns. To link these fields and test how distinct motives could differentially predict different types of economic decisions, we experimentally induced participants with either a Care or a Power motive, before having them take part in a suite of classic game theoretical paradigms involving monetary exchange. We show that the Care induction alone raised scores on a latent factor of cooperation-related behaviors, relative to a control condition, while, relative to Care, Power raised scores on a punishment-related factor. These findings argue against context-insensitive stable preferences and theories of strong reciprocity and in favor of a motive-based approach to economic decision making: Care and Power motivation have a dissociable fingerprint in shaping either cooperative or punishment behaviors.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Caring Cooperators and Powerful Punishers: Differential Effects of Induced Care and Power Motivation on Different Types of Economic Decision Making |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-11580-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11580-8 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, COMPASSION, EMPATHY, PUNISHMENT, ALTRUISM, FAIRNESS, ANGER, GAME |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089598 |
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