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The social power of regret: the effect of social appraisal and anticipated emotions on fair and unfair allocations in resource dilemmas.

Job van der Schalk; Toon Kuppens; Martin Bruder; Antony S R Manstead

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Title: The social power of regret: the effect of social appraisal and anticipated emotions on fair and unfair allocations in resource dilemmas.
Author: Job van der Schalk; Toon Kuppens; Martin Bruder; Antony S R Manstead
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology. General · DOI 10.1037/xge0000036 Published 2014-11-10 · Open source record
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Abstract We investigated how another person’s emotions about resource allocation decisions influence observers’ resource allocations by influencing the emotions that observers anticipate feeling if they were to act in the same way. Participants were exposed to an exemplar who made a fair or unfair division in an economic game and expressed pride or regret about this decision. Participants then made their own resource allocation decisions. Exemplar regret about acting fairly decreased the incidence of fair behavior (Studies 1A and 1B). Likewise, exemplar regret about acting unfairly increased the incidence of fair behavior (Study 2). The effect of others’ emotions on observers’ behavior was mediated by the observers’ anticipated emotions. We discuss our findings in light of the view that social appraisal and anticipated emotions are important tools for social learning and may contribute to the formation and maintenance of social norms about greed and fairness. Keywords: social appraisal, anticipated emotions, fairness, resource allocation, decision-making

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Original journal: Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
Published: 2014-11-10
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000036
Open record: PMC4312135

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