Be Strong Enough to Say No: Self-affirmation Increases Rejection to Unfair Offers

Be Strong Enough to Say No: Self-affirmation Increases Rejection to Unfair Offers

We propose that self-affirmation may endow people more psychological resources to buffer against the negative influence of rejecting unfair offers in the classic ultimatum game (UG) and further lead to a stronger tendency to reject those offers. We test this possibility by conducting an event-relate...

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Main Authors:	Ruolei Gu, Jing Yang, Yuanyuan Shi, Yi Luo, Yu L. L. Luo, Huajian Cai
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:	Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:	fairness social decision-making self-affirmation event-related potential (ERP) P3 social rejection
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01824/full

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