DRUG CHOICE AS A SELF-HANDICAPPING STRATEGY IN RESPONSE TO NONCONTINGENT SUCCESS
DRUG CHOICE AS A SELF-HANDICAPPING STRATEGY IN RESPONSE TO NONCONTINGENT SUCCESS
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.36.4.405
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
JONES, EE
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作者:
BERGLAS, S;JONES, EE
In 2 experiments, college student Ss were instructed to choose between a drug that allegedly interfered with performance and a drug that allegedly enhanced performance. This choice was the main dependent measure of the experiment. The drug choice intervened between work on soluble or insoluble problems and a promised retest on similar problems. In Exp I with 68 males and 43 females, all Ss received success feedback after their initial problem-solving attempts, thus creating one condition in which the success appeared to be accidental (noncontingent on performance) and one in which the success appeared to be contingent on appropriate knowledge. Males in the noncontingent-success condition were alone in preferring the performance-inhibiting drug, presumably because they wished to externalize probable failure on the retest. The predicted effect, however, did not hold for female Ss. Exp II, with 87 Ss, replicated the unique preference shown by males after noncontingent success and showed the critical importance of success feedback.(18 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)