Sabotaging Another: Priming Competition Increases Cheating Behavior in Tournaments

Mary L. Rigdon; Alexander D'Esterre

doi:10.1002/soej.12232

Sabotaging Another: Priming Competition Increases Cheating Behavior in Tournaments

Mary L. Rigdon, Alexander D'Esterre

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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)
Pages (from-to)	456-473
Number of pages	18
Journal	Southern Economic Journal
Volume	84
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12232
State	Published - Oct 2017
Externally published	Yes

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