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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alcala, Valerie
• Johnson, Kendra
• Steele, Caroline
• Wu, Juanshu
• Zhang, Donglai
• Pashler, Harold

Titel

The tainted altruism effect: a successful pre-registered replication

Ist Teil von

• Royal Society open science, 2022, Vol.9 (1), p.211152-211152

Ort / Verlag

England: The Royal Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Newman and Cain (Newman, Cain 2014 , 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 ( = 501) intended to be fairly representative of the US population. The results confirm the original findings in considerable detail.