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Altruistic punishment is connected to trait anger, not trait altruism, if compensation is available
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-177669
- 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 angerAltruistic 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.…
Author: | Johannes Rodrigues, Natalie Nagowski, Patrick Mussel, Johannes Hewig |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-177669 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Heliyon |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 11 |
Pagenumber: | e00962 |
Source: | Heliyon 2018, 4(11):e00962. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00962 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00962 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Tag: | altruism; altruistic compensation; altruistic punishment; anger; psychology |
Release Date: | 2019/04/12 |
EU-Project number / Contract (GA) number: | 823881 |
OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
Collections: | Open-Access-Publikationsfonds / Förderzeitraum 2018 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |