Enhanced source memory for cheaters with higher resemblance to own-culture typical faces

Çavuşoğlu, Pınar Bürhan; Alici, Tevfik

doi:10.3758/s13423-022-02177-y

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“…The experimental manipulation of the behavior of the partners is a common approach in Experimental Psychology to gain control over confounding factors that may influence an individual’s behavior. The same procedure has been used in many previous studies applying the same task 59 – 62 , 73 and is similar to the procedures used in other studies on the psychological underpinnings of social cooperation 44 , 46 , 74 , 75 .…”

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Communicating emotions, but not expressing them privately, reduces moral punishment in a Prisoner’s Dilemma game

Philippsen,

Mieth,

Buchner

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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The existence of moral punishment, that is, the fact that cooperative people sacrifice resources to punish defecting partners requires an explanation. Potential explanations are that people punish defecting partners to privately express or to communicate their negative emotions in response to the experienced unfairness. If so, then providing participants with alternative ways to privately express or to communicate their emotions should reduce moral punishment. In two experiments, participants interacted with cooperating and defecting partners in a Prisoner’s Dilemma game. After each round, participants communicated their emotions to their partners (Experiments 1 and 2) or only expressed them privately (Experiment 2). Each trial concluded with a costly punishment option. Compared to a no-expression control group, moral punishment was reduced when emotions were communicated to the defecting partner but not when emotions were privately expressed. Moral punishment may thus serve to communicate emotions to defecting partners. However, moral punishment was only reduced but far from being eliminated, suggesting that the communication of emotions does not come close to replacing moral punishment. Furthermore, prompting participants to focus on their emotions had undesirable side-effects: Privately expressing emotions diminished cooperation, enhanced hypocritical punishment (i.e., punishment of defecting partners by defecting participants), and induced an unspecific bias to punish the partners irrespective of their actions.

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