I Like the Food You Made! Overly Positive Feedback Is Most Likely Given to Those That Want to Excel in a Task and Handle Failure Badly

In this article, we focus on how people resolve the dilemma between honest feedback and a prosocial lie depending on the context. In a pre-registered study (N = 455), we asked participants to choose between telling the blatant truth or lying prosocially regarding a dish made poorly by a stranger. Th...

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Autores principales: Cantarero, Katarzyna, Byrka, Katarzyna, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Dolinski, Dariusz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9344058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35928429
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.807958
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Byrka, Katarzyna
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description In this article, we focus on how people resolve the dilemma between honest feedback and a prosocial lie depending on the context. In a pre-registered study (N = 455), we asked participants to choose between telling the blatant truth or lying prosocially regarding a dish made poorly by a stranger. The results showed that participants were most eager to pass on overly positive feedback when the stranger cared about cooking and was very sensitive to negative feedback. Perceived harm in truth telling mediated the relationship between desire to excel in a task with high ability to handle failure and choosing a prosocial lie.
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spelling pubmed-93440582022-08-03 I Like the Food You Made! Overly Positive Feedback Is Most Likely Given to Those That Want to Excel in a Task and Handle Failure Badly Cantarero, Katarzyna Byrka, Katarzyna Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra Dolinski, Dariusz Front Psychol Psychology In this article, we focus on how people resolve the dilemma between honest feedback and a prosocial lie depending on the context. In a pre-registered study (N = 455), we asked participants to choose between telling the blatant truth or lying prosocially regarding a dish made poorly by a stranger. The results showed that participants were most eager to pass on overly positive feedback when the stranger cared about cooking and was very sensitive to negative feedback. Perceived harm in truth telling mediated the relationship between desire to excel in a task with high ability to handle failure and choosing a prosocial lie. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9344058/ /pubmed/35928429 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.807958 Text en Copyright © 2022 Cantarero, Byrka, Kosiarczyk and Dolinski. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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I Like the Food You Made! Overly Positive Feedback Is Most Likely Given to Those That Want to Excel in a Task and Handle Failure Badly
title I Like the Food You Made! Overly Positive Feedback Is Most Likely Given to Those That Want to Excel in a Task and Handle Failure Badly
title_full I Like the Food You Made! Overly Positive Feedback Is Most Likely Given to Those That Want to Excel in a Task and Handle Failure Badly
title_fullStr I Like the Food You Made! Overly Positive Feedback Is Most Likely Given to Those That Want to Excel in a Task and Handle Failure Badly
title_full_unstemmed I Like the Food You Made! Overly Positive Feedback Is Most Likely Given to Those That Want to Excel in a Task and Handle Failure Badly
title_short I Like the Food You Made! Overly Positive Feedback Is Most Likely Given to Those That Want to Excel in a Task and Handle Failure Badly
title_sort i like the food you made! overly positive feedback is most likely given to those that want to excel in a task and handle failure badly
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9344058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35928429
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.807958
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