Social value orientation moderates the effects of intuition versus reflection on responses to unfair ultimatum offers

Autor(en)
Maik Bieleke, Peter M. Gollwitzer, Gabriele Oettingen, Urs Fischbacher
Abstrakt

We investigated whether social value orientation (SVO) moderates the effects of intuitive versus reflective information processing on responses to unfair offers. We measured SVO one week prior to an ultimatum game experiment in which participants had to accept or reject a series of 10 ultimatum offers including very low (unfair) ones. Before making these decisions, participants mentally contrasted their individual goals with the obstacle of pondering at length or acting in a hasty way; then they made the plan to adopt an intuitive or a reflective mode of processing (intuitive and reflective condition, respectively), or made no such plans (control condition). Participants with rather high (prosocial) SVO scores were more likely to accept unfair offers in the reflective than the intuitive condition. This effect also evinced for a subset of selfish individuals; however, the majority with rather low (selfish) scores made similar decisions in both conditions. This pattern of results suggests that SVO moderates the effects of intuitive versus reflective modes of processing on responses to low ultimatum offers.

Organisation(en)
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität Konstanz, New York University, Universität Hamburg
Journal
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
Band
30
Seiten
569-581
Anzahl der Seiten
13
ISSN
0894-3257
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1975
Publikationsdatum
03-2017
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501021 Sozialpsychologie, 501030 Kognitionswissenschaft, 501013 Motivationspsychologie, 501029 Wirtschaftspsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Allgemeine Entscheidungswissenschaften, Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/c15ab2a5-6b7a-4b2d-a9d9-e279ed602a28