Future-Orientation (as Trait and State) Promotes Reputation-Protective Choice in Moral Dilemmas
Future-Orientation (as Trait and State) Promotes Reputation-Protective Choice in Moral Dilemmas
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DOI：
10.1177/1948550619899257
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发表时间：
2020-06-11
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Sjastad, Hallgeir
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作者：
Vonasch, Andrew J.;Sjastad, Hallgeir
由于忽视了良好声誉的终身重要性，人类可以从不道德行为中短期获利。因此，保护名誉是一种跨期选择。在三项预先注册的研究（N = 1，492名美国人）中，我们测试了未来导向会增加人们保护自己声誉免受伤害的意愿的假设。在假设的情况下，人们必须选择是否立即支付费用以防止毁灭性的谣言传播。研究1发现，未来导向和声誉保护之间存在正相关关系。研究二通过实验操作时间洞察力，发现未来焦点（与现在焦点）对声誉保护有正向因果关系影响。研究3是一个高功率的复制，表明未来的关注声誉保护的选择的效果是强大的，并介导声誉的关注。与世界各地保护声誉免受伤害的共同建议一致，人们实现这一目标的一种方法是在采取行动之前考虑未来。
By neglecting the lifelong importance of having a good reputation, humans can profit in the short run from immoral behavior. Thus, reputation-protection is an intertemporal choice. In three preregistered studies (N = 1,492 Americans), we tested the hypothesis that future-orientation would increase people's willingness to protect their reputation from harm. In hypothetical scenarios, people had to choose whether they would pay an immediate cost to prevent a devastating rumor from spreading. Study 1 found a positive correlation between future-orientation and reputation-protection. Study 2 manipulated time perspective experimentally and found that future focus (vs. present focus) had a positive and causal effect on reputation-protection. Study 3 was a high-powered replication, showing that the effect of future focus on reputation-protective choice was robust and mediated by reputational concern. In line with common advice around the world of protecting one's reputation from harm, one way people may achieve that goal is to think about the future before acting.