Drivers and Outcome of Destructive Envy behavior in an Economic Game Setting

How to become an employer of choice: transforming employer brand associations into employer first-choice brands

“…Boezeman & Ellemers, 2007;Tracy & Robins, 2007) or envy feelings derived from, for example, different salary levels (e.g. Wobker & Kenning, 2013), and to investigate the role of these specific emotions in being or becoming an FCB e . Finally, a methodological perspective indicates that the mediation analysis approach proposed by Baron and Kenny (1986) is not unquestioned.…”

The Price of Envy—An Experimental Investigation of Spiteful Behavior

“… This study is based on a sample first reported in a previous publication by the author (Wobker and Kenning, ). This previous study had a different scope than this study and out of the four scales investigated in the work presented here, only one construct, spiteful behavior, had also been part of the previous publication.…”

Envy – an Unwanted, yet Unavoidable and Necessary Emotion

“…Men will feel more envious towards those rivals that are better off for their ability to acquire resources, while women will target youth and physical attractiveness (Buss, 1989a). Gender effect was also found in Wobker and Kenning's (2013) experimental study of drivers and outcome of envy in an economic group game. The game was set up in a way that participants were free to choose their strategy while playing the game.…”

“…Focusing initially on the phenomenon of social distancing, they found that pairs of strangers, playing a competitive coordination game, reach a more efficient outcome than pairs of friends. Another experimental study (Wobker & Kenning, 2013) expanded the organizational context to economic decision-making by using the gaming procedure with real money and possible gain. In the first phase, participants played a winnertake-all game to set up unequal gain.…”