TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rodrigues, Johannes
A1  - Nagowski, Natalie
A1  - Mussel, Patrick
A1  - Hewig, Johannes
T1  - Altruistic punishment is connected to trait anger, not trait altruism, if compensation is available
T2  - Heliyon
N2  - Altruistic punishment and altruistic compensation are important concepts that are used to investigate altruism. However, altruistic punishment has been found to be correlated with anger. We were interested whether altruistic punishment and altruistic compensation are both driven by trait altruism and trait anger or whether the influence of those two traits is more specific to one of the behavioral options. We found that if the participants were able to apply altruistic compensation and altruistic punishment together in one paradigm, trait anger only predicts altruistic punishment and trait altruism only predicts altruistic compensation. Interestingly, these relations are disguised in classical altruistic punishment and altruistic compensation paradigms where participants can either only punish or compensate. Hence altruistic punishment and altruistic compensation paradigms should be merged together if one is interested in trait altruism without the confounding influence of trait anger.
KW  - psychology
KW  - altruism
KW  - altruistic punishment
KW  - altruistic compensation
KW  - anger
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/17766
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-177669
VL  - 4
IS  - 11
ER  -