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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.