Foregoing the labor for the fruits: The effect of just world threat on the desire for immediate monetary rewards
Foregoing the labor for the fruits: The effect of just world threat on the desire for immediate monetary rewards
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.013
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Olson, James M.
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作者：
Callan, Mitchell J.;Shead, N. Will;Olson, James M.
以前的理论和研究表明，当孩子们开始理解放弃眼前满足以获得更令人满意的长期结果的好处时，就会产生相信公正世界的需要。基于这项先前的工作，我们提出，现存的正义世界威胁可能会引发一种对较小的、立即的回报的渴望，而代价是更大的、延迟的回报。参与者被暴露在无辜或非无辜受害者的痛苦中，然后在不同的背景下完成了一项临时贴现任务，该任务跨越六个时间延迟来评估他们对较小的、立即的金钱奖励与持续的、较大的、延迟的奖励的偏好。与我们的推理一致的是，暴露在无辜受害者与非无辜受害者痛苦中的参与者对延迟奖励的价值打了更大的折扣--也就是说，他们愿意接受较小的即时奖励，而不是较大的延迟奖励。讨论了这些结果的理论和实践意义。(C)2008 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
Previous theorizing and research suggest that the need to believe in a just world develops when children begin to understand the benefits of foregoing their immediate gratifications for more desirable, long-term outcomes. Drawing on this previous work, we propose that an extant just world threat may induce a desire for smaller, immediate rewards at the expense of larger, delayed rewards. Participants were exposed to the suffering of an innocent or non-innocent victim and then, in a different context, completed a temporal discounting task that assessed, across six time delays, their preferences for smaller, immediate monetary rewards versus a constant, larger, delayed reward. Consistent with our reasoning, participants exposed to the suffering of an innocent versus non-innocent victim more steeply discounted the value of the delayed reward-that is, they were willing to accept smaller immediate rewards in place of the larger, delayed reward. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.