Psychological consequences of money and money attitudes in dictator game

• Authors: Agata Gąsiorowska , Anna M. Hełka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

According to the research conducted by Vohs, Mead, and Goode (2006, 2008), reminders of money cause people to behave self-sufficiently, and especially to reveal a reduced tendency to charitable behaviour. In this study, we wanted to establish if this tendency would be present in the dictator game, and if so, whether money activation would just change behaviour, or whether it would also change people’s evaluation of their own decisions. We assumed that people who revealed symbolic and instrumental money attitudes would react differently to money activation. As expected, money priming caused smaller money transfers compared to the control condition, and this effect was significant among those with symbolic attitudes toward money. Moreover, participants who transferred at least half of the sum after money activation declared stronger negative emotions and lower satisfaction with the decision than those who made similar transfers in the control condition.

Keywords

EN

money; priming; money attitudes; pro-social preferences; dictator game

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 20-26

Contributors

author

Agata Gąsiorowska

• Warsaw School of Social Science and Humanities, 53–238 Wroclaw, Ostrowskiego Street 30 Poland

author

Anna M. Hełka

• Warsaw School of Social Science and Humanities, 53–238 Wroclaw, Ostrowskiego Street 30 Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10059-012-0003-8