| Popis: |
In this preregistered study, we attempted to replicate and substantially extend a frequently cited experiment by Schurr and Ritov, published in 2016, suggesting that winners of pairwise competitions are more likely than others to steal money in subsequent games of chance against different opponents, possibly because of an enhanced sense of entitlement among competition winners. A replication seemed desirable because of the relevance of the effect to dishonesty in everyday life, the apparent counterintuitivity of the effect, possible problems and anomalies in the original study, and above all the fact that the researchers investigated only one potential explanation for the effect. If the main findings were replicated, then a second study tested three possible explanations for it—sense of entitlement, self-confidence, feeling lucky. If we found that losing rather than winning increased subsequent cheating, then the second study tested two possible explanations for that effect—victim entitlement and inequality aversion. |
