The tainted altruism effect: a successful pre-registered replication

Newman and Cain (Newman, Cain 2014 Psychol. Sci. 25, 648–655 (doi:10.1177/0956797613504785)) reported that observers view a person's choices as less ethical when that person has acted in response to both altruistic and selfish (commercial) motivations, as compared with purely selfish interests....

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Autores principales: Alcala, Valerie, Johnson, Kendra, Steele, Caroline, Wu, Juanshu, Zhang, Donglai, Pashler, Harold
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2022
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Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8790362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35116147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211152
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author Alcala, Valerie
Johnson, Kendra
Steele, Caroline
Wu, Juanshu
Zhang, Donglai
Pashler, Harold
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description Newman and Cain (Newman, Cain 2014 Psychol. Sci. 25, 648–655 (doi:10.1177/0956797613504785)) reported that observers view a person's choices as less ethical when that person has acted in response to both altruistic and selfish (commercial) motivations, as compared with purely selfish interests. The altruistic component reduces the observers' approval rather than raising it. This puzzling phenomenon termed the ‘tainted altruism’ effect, has attracted considerable interest but no direct replications in prior research. We report direct replications of Newman and Cain's Experiments 2 and 3, using a larger sample (n = 501) intended to be fairly representative of the US population. The results confirm the original findings in considerable detail.
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spelling pubmed-87903622022-02-02 The tainted altruism effect: a successful pre-registered replication Alcala, Valerie Johnson, Kendra Steele, Caroline Wu, Juanshu Zhang, Donglai Pashler, Harold R Soc Open Sci Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Newman and Cain (Newman, Cain 2014 Psychol. Sci. 25, 648–655 (doi:10.1177/0956797613504785)) reported that observers view a person's choices as less ethical when that person has acted in response to both altruistic and selfish (commercial) motivations, as compared with purely selfish interests. The altruistic component reduces the observers' approval rather than raising it. This puzzling phenomenon termed the ‘tainted altruism’ effect, has attracted considerable interest but no direct replications in prior research. We report direct replications of Newman and Cain's Experiments 2 and 3, using a larger sample (n = 501) intended to be fairly representative of the US population. The results confirm the original findings in considerable detail. The Royal Society 2022-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8790362/ /pubmed/35116147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211152 Text en © 2022 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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