Social Inference

Hastie, R

doi:10.1146/annurev.ps.34.020183.002455

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“…Group identity can change this perception of actions from in-or out-group members substantially. The famous 'group attribution error' (Allison and Messick, 1985) as one way of group specific 'social inference' (Tajfel, 1982;Hastie, 1983) shows that the same actions are perceived differently if taken by an in-or out-group member. Holding expectations constant, control by an out-group principal is expected to be perceived more negatively than control by an in-group member.…”

Section: Behavioral Predictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incentives and group identity

Masella

Meier

Zahn

2014

Games and Economic Behavior

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. ABSTRACT Incentives and Group Identity * This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have "hidden costs", i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden costs for reasons specific to group membership. In within-group interactions control has detrimental effects because the agent does not expect to be controlled and reacts negatively when being controlled. In between-group interactions, agents perceive control more hostile once we condition on their beliefs about principal's behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives. JEL Classification: C91, D03, Z13

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Section: Behavioral Predictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incentives and group identity

Masella

Meier

Zahn

2014

Games and Economic Behavior

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“…For decades, psychologists have noted that people construct plausible, quasi-scientific stories to understand, predict, and justify events in the world (e.g., Bruner, 1957; Heider, 1958; Kruglanski, 1980; Snyder and Gangestad, 1981; Hastie, 1983). These stories are known as implicit theories, lay theories, naïve theories, or causal schemata.…”

Section: Role Of Causal Lay Theories Of Mindwanderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Driver of discontent or escape vehicle: the affective consequences of mindwandering

Mason¹,

Brown²,

Mar³

et al. 2013

Front. Psychol.

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An emerging body of evidence suggests that our penchant for entertaining thoughts that are unrelated to ongoing activities might be a detriment to our emotional wellbeing. In light of this evidence, researchers have posited that mindwandering is a cause rather than a manifestation of discontent. We review the evidence in support of this viewpoint. We then consider this evidence in a broader context—with regards to mindwandering's antecedents, respecting the observation that people frequently find pleasure in their off-task moments, and in light of the lay beliefs people hold about its causes. We report data from two studies that speak to the potential challenges of establishing a definitive causal link between mindwandering and wellbeing. First, to advance the idea that mindwandering can convey affective benefits, in spite of negative feelings about mental disengagement, we examined cortical responses in a unique individual who presents with a long history of excessive—but enjoyable—task-irrelevant thinking. Second, to explore the idea that lay beliefs about mindwandering may substantially color the affective responses people have to a mindwandering episode, we surveyed people's beliefs about mindwandering's antecedents and related them to the affective reactions people anticipated to off-task moments. Our hope is to provide a nuanced evaluation of the available evidence for the assertion that mindwandering causes unhappiness, and to provide a clear direction forward to better evaluate this possibility.

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“…This reflects the prevailing importance of the derivation of causal connections (or their near approximations) across a wide range of cognitive phenomena, including perception (e.g., Michotte, 1945), learning (e.g., Pawlow, 1923), memory (Radvansky & Copeland, 2000), problem solving (Pennington & Hastie, 1993), language comprehension (Myers, Shinjo, & Duffy, 1987) and social judgements (Hastie, 1983).…”

Section: Event Model Structurementioning

confidence: 99%