Victim entitlement to behave selfishly.
@article{Zitek2010VictimET, title={Victim entitlement to behave selfishly.}, author={Emily M. Zitek and A. H. Jordan and B. Monin and Frederick R Leach}, journal={Journal of personality and social psychology}, year={2010}, volume={98 2}, pages={ 245-55 } }
Three experiments demonstrated that feeling wronged leads to a sense of entitlement and to selfish behavior. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall a time when their lives were unfair were more likely to refuse to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants who recalled a time when they were bored. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased intentions to engage in a number of selfish behaviors, and this effect was mediated by self-reported… CONTINUE READING
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