Implicit justifications’ and self-serving group allocations

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ID12167992
AuthorsKristina A Diekmann (0000-0001-7020-5480, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume18
Issue1
Pages3-16
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Organizational Behavior (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0894-3796 • E-ISSN: 1099-1379
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199701)18:1<3::aid-job793>3.0.co;2-d
OpenAlexW2015115385
LanguageEN
Citations received5

In comparison to allocating resources to oneself, when allocating resources to one's group, people are able to ‘get away with’ taking more than a fair and equal share because there exists an implicit justification that fellow group members will benefit. Such an implicit justification enables people to hide their self-serving motivation. Results reveal that subjects allocating a sum of money between their group and a competing group took a significantly greater share of the resource than subjects allocating between themselves and a competing individual. Whether the allocation was made public or kept private had a significant impact on this relationship: the difference between group and self allocations was significantly greater when the allocation was made public than when kept private. However, subjects allocating only to themselves and in private were almost as self-serving as subjects allocating to their group (both in private and in public). The only case where subjects were overly constrained by equality was when they were allocating to only themselves and the allocation was made public. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Economics · Group (periodic table · Management · Microeconomics · Resource allocation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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