ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Be Strong Enough to Say No: Self-Affirmation Increases Rejection to Unfair Offers.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Longitudinal comparisons of self-affirmation approaches for sun protection.British journal of health psychology · 2023Trial
- Giving people the words to say no leads them to feel freer to say yes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A Sense of Scarcity Enhances the Above-Average Effect in Social Comparison.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The personality and cognitive traits associated with adolescents' sensitivity to social norms.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Self-affirmation enhances the processing of uncertainty: An event-related potential study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Social Support Modulates Neural Responses to Unfairness in the Ultimatum Game.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Proposal Allocation Ratio as a Moderator of Interpersonal Responsibility Effects on Hostile Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
We propose that self-affirmation may endow people more psychological resources to buffer against the negative influence of rejecting unfair offers in the classic ultimatum game (UG) and further lead to a stronger tendency to reject those offers. We tested this possibility by conducting an event-related potential (ERP) study about the UG, with the ERP component P3 as an indirect indicator of psychological resources. Participants were randomly assigned to the affirmation or control condition and then completed the UG through electrophysiological recording. As expected, the behavioral data indicated that compared with unaffirmed ones, affirmed participants were more likely to reject unfair UG offers; the electrophysiological data indicated that compared to the unaffirmed, affirmed participants showed a greater P3 in response to the presentation of an offer. These findings suggest that psychological resources may play a role in rejecting others beyond the fairness concern, and additionally shed light on the neural mechanisms underlying self-affirmation.
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