Abstract
Trophy. Goal. Dominated. Does priming individuals with competitive concepts such as these influence the temptation to cheat? We utilize a standard laboratory cheating task in a tournament setting and test whether nonconscious priming impacts the nature of cheating behavior. The results demonstrate an asymmetry in a winner-take-all setting: a competitive prime does not increase cheating to improve one's own outcome, but does significantly increase the willingness of an individual to sabotage a competitor.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 456-473 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Southern Economic Journal |
Volume | 84 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- C91
- D03
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics