Doctoral Dissertation Research: Double Standards and Pay: The Relationship Between Standards for Performance and Rewards

9401080 Ridgeway这是一项改善博士论文研究计划下的奖励。它是对接受或拒绝奖励任务表现的双重标准的一些社会基础的研究。一系列的社会心理学实验将在大学生中进行，用电脑模拟搭档合作完成指定任务。通过对被试和合作伙伴的相对奖励的操纵以及合作伙伴的社会地位特征，研究被试对建立差异奖励结构的反应。之前的实验社会心理学研究的要么是评价他人的标准，要么是建立个人回报期望的标准，但这将是同时研究这两个过程的少数尝试之一。与一些实验不同，这个项目的结果应该对现实生活中重要的情况有直接的影响，这些情况涉及在判断个人表现时接受或挑战双重标准。除了研究取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将极大地帮助极有前途的学生完成博士论文的研究。有利于培养国家未来的科学人才，有利于培养下一代社会科学家。＊＊＊

9401080 Ridgeway This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research program. It is a study of some of the social bases for the acceptance or rejection of double standards for rewarding performance of tasks. A series of social psychological experiments will be carried out using undergraduate students, with computers used to simulate partners cooperating in performing an assigned task. Through manipulation of the relative rewards given to subjects and partners and also the social status characteristics of partners, reactions of subjects to the establishment of a differential reward structure will be studied. Previous work in experimental social psychology has examined either how standards for evaluating others or individual reward expectations are established, but this will be one of the few attempts to study both processes simultaneously. Unlike some experiments, the results of this project should have direct implications for important real-life situations involving the acceptance or challenging of double standards for judging individual performance. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of social scientists. ***