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Isolating the effect of injunctive norms on conservation behavior: New evidence from a field experiment in California
Publication date: Available online 11 December 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesAuthor(s): Syon P. BhanotAbstractSocial norms messaging campaigns are increasingly used to influence human behavior, with social science research generally finding that they have modest but meaningful effects. One aspect of these campaigns in practice has been the inclusion of injunctive norms messaging, designed to convey a social judgment about one’s behavior (often in the form of encouraging or discouraging language, or a visual smiley or frowny face). While some prominent research has provided support for th...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - December 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Losing your temper and your perspective: Anger reduces perspective-taking
Publication date: January 2019Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 150Author(s): Jeremy A. Yip, Maurice E. SchweitzerAbstractAcross six studies, we find that both incidental anger and integral anger reduce perspective-taking. In Study 1, participants who felt incidental anger were less likely to take others’ perspectives than those who felt neutral emotion. In Study 2, we demonstrate that arousal mediates the relationship between anger and diminished perspective-taking. In Studies 3 and 4, we show that anger reduces perspective-taking compared to neutral emotion, sadness, and disgust. In S...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - December 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reconceptualizing goal setting’s dark side: The ethical consequences of learning versus outcome goals
Publication date: January 2019Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 150Author(s): David Welsh, John Bush, Chase Thiel, Julena BonnerAbstractGoal-setting theory is one of the most researched and practically applied theories in the field of organizational behavior. A core tenet of this theory is that specific and challenging goals increase performance. However, recent behavioral ethics research has left unresolved questions regarding how high performance goals can be used to motivate performance without also encouraging unethical behavior. Drawing on achievement goal theory, we consider the rol...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - November 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): (Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - November 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Curiosity made the cat more creative: Specific curiosity as a driver of creativity
Publication date: January 2019Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 150Author(s): Lydia Paine Hagtvedt, Karyn Dossinger, Spencer H. Harrison, Li HuangAbstractThe present research examines the causal relationship between specific curiosity and creativity. To explicate this relationship, we introduce the concept of idea linking, a cognitive process that entails using aspects of early ideas as input for subsequent ideas in a sequential manner, such that one idea is a stepping stone to the next. Study 1 demonstrated the causal effect of specific curiosity on creativity. Study 2, a field study of ...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - November 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The (bounded) benefits of correction: The unanticipated interpersonal advantages of making and correcting mistakes
Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): Daniella Kupor, Taly Reich, Kristin LaurinAbstractIndividuals and organizations often fear that making a mistake in their pursuit of a goal will lead others to judge them as less likely to achieve that goal. We find that the reverse regularly occurs under systematic conditions. In six studies, we examine how observers perceive both organizations and individuals who make a mistake and correct it, versus those who actively prevent that same mistake from occurring in the first place. We find that observers infer t...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - November 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Designing nudges for the context: Golden coin decals nudge workplace behavior in China
Publication date: Available online 31 October 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesAuthor(s): Sherry Jueyu Wu, Elizabeth Levy PaluckAbstractWe conduct a field experiment in a Chinese workplace to illustrate that designing nudges requires an understanding of the motivational structure of a behavior, which includes recognizing people’s subjective understandings of their local context. Workers in six production departments of a textile factory in China were unresponsive to the factory’s rules and monetary incentives to throw waste in trash cans, rather than on the floor. We designed a nudge in t...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - November 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“If hierarchical, then corrupt”: Exploring people’s tendency to associate hierarchy with corruption in organizations
Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): Sean Fath, Aaron C. KayAbstractWe propose that people associate organizational hierarchy with corruption. Nine studies (N = 1896) provide triangulating evidence for this tendency and its underlying mechanism. We find that people expect more corruption to manifest among the employees of relatively more hierarchical organizations, and judge an organization with a history of corruption more likely to be hierarchical than one without. Furthermore, we show that the lay belief that hierarchy and corruption are co...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - November 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Connectionism in action: Exploring the links between leader prototypes, leader gender, and perceptions of authentic leadership
Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): Susanne Braun, Claudia Peus, Dieter FreyAbstractBuilding on the connectionist model of leadership perceptions, this research investigates the relationships between leader gender and authentic leadership perceptions from a leadership prototype perspective. In a five-study series, we tested different cognitive processing dynamics that influenced leadership perceptions. Study 1 (N = 271) demonstrated that female leader targets increased authentic leadership perceptions. Study 2 (N = 171) showed this associ...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - October 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Building trust by tearing others down: When accusing others of unethical behavior engenders trust
Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): Jessica A. Kennedy, Maurice E. SchweitzerAbstractWe demonstrate that accusations harm trust in targets, but boost trust in the accuser when the accusation signals that the accuser has high integrity. Compared to individuals who did not accuse targets of engaging in unethical behavior, accusers engendered greater trust when observers perceived the accusation to be motivated by a desire to defend moral norms, rather than by a desire to advance ulterior motives. We also found that the accuser’s moral hypocrisy, ...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - October 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The impact of doubt on the experience of regret
Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): Philippe P.F.M. van de Calseyde, Marcel Zeelenberg, Ellen R.K. EversAbstractDecisions often produce considerable levels of doubt and regret, yet little is known about how these experiences are related. In six sets of studies (and two pilot-studies; total N = 2268), we consistently find that doubts arising after a decision (i.e., when people start questioning whether they made the correct decision) intensify regret via increased feelings of blame for having made a poor choice. These results are consistent wi...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - October 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Low power individuals in social power research: A quantitative review, theoretical framework, and empirical test
Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): Michael Schaerer, Christilene du Plessis, Andy J. Yap, Stefan ThauAbstractWe examine the role of low-power individuals in social power research. A multi-method literature review reveals that low-power individuals may be insufficiently understood because many studies lack necessary control conditions that allow drawing inferences about low power, effects are predominantly attributed to high power, and qualitative reviews primarily focus on how high-power individuals feel, think, and behave. Challenging the assum...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - October 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

From spontaneous cooperation to spontaneous punishment – Distinguishing the underlying motives driving spontaneous behavior in first and second order public good games
Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): Dorothee Mischkowski, Andreas Glöckner, Peter LewischAbstractRecent findings indicate that at least some individuals use prosocial options by default in social dilemmas, known as ‘spontaneous cooperation’. In two studies, we test whether this effect generalizes to second order public goods in the form of punishment behavior in one-shot and iterated public good games and investigate the underlying motivations. In line with spontaneous cooperation, punishment decreases with increasing decision time. Negative...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Cogs in the machine: The prioritization of money and self-dehumanization
We examined when and why the self can also be dehumanized. Across six studies, we found a reciprocal relationship between self-dehumanization and the prioritization of money. Participants who prioritized money (vs. control participants) attributed less humanness to themselves (Studies 1–4), and in turn, chose to socially distance themselves from a coworker (Study 4). Participants led to self-humanize (vs. control participants) were less likely to prioritize money over other goals (Studies 5A-6). The human nature dimension of humanness, which refers to attributes that separate humans from inanimate objects, was more sensi...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - September 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Attainment versus maintenance goals: Perceived difficulty and impact on goal choice
Publication date: November 2018Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 149Author(s): Antonios Stamatogiannakis, Amitava Chattopadhyay, Dipankar ChakravartiAbstractWe argue that individuals monitor and evaluate attainment and maintenance goals differently. Attainment goals feature a salient current-end state discrepancy that is processed more than the corresponding match for maintenance goals. For maintenance goals, for which a salient discrepancy is absent, contextual influences on goal success/failure receive more processing than for attainment goals. Thus, objectively more difficult attainmen...
Source: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - September 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research