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Sabotaging Another: Priming Competition Increases Cheating Behavior in Tournaments

Author(s) -

Rigdon Mary L.,

D'Esterre Alexander

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

southern economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 2325-8012

pISSN - 0038-4038

DOI - 10.1002/soej.12232

Subject(s) - cheating , priming (agriculture) , temptation , competition (biology) , social psychology , tournament , psychology , task (project management) , trophy , test (biology) , microeconomics , economics , political science , biology , law , management , ecology , mathematics , botany , germination , combinatorics

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.

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