Foregoing the labor for the fruits: The effect of just world threat on the desire for immediate monetary rewards

被引:45
作者
Callan, Mitchell J. [1 ]
Shead, N. Will [2 ]
Olson, James M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Psychol, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada
[2] Univ Calgary, Dept Psychol, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
关键词
Justice motivation; Delay of gratification; Temporal discounting; BELIEF; VICTIMS; JUSTICE; DELAY; BEHAVIOR; OTHERS; REAL;
D O I
10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.013
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Previous theorizing and research suggest that the need to believe in a just world develops when children begin to understand the benefits of foregoing their immediate gratifications for more desirable, long-term outcomes. Drawing on this previous work, we propose that an extant just world threat may induce a desire for smaller, immediate rewards at the expense of larger, delayed rewards. Participants were exposed to the suffering of an innocent or non-innocent victim and then, in a different context, completed a temporal discounting task that assessed, across six time delays, their preferences for smaller, immediate monetary rewards versus a constant, larger, delayed reward. Consistent with our reasoning, participants exposed to the suffering of an innocent versus non-innocent victim more steeply discounted the value of the delayed reward-that is, they were willing to accept smaller immediate rewards in place of the larger, delayed reward. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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