Guo Wen, Liu Huanxu, Yang Jingwen, Mo Yuqi, Zhong Can, Yamada Yuki
Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
F1000Res. 2019 Aug 22;8:1482. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.20183.4. eCollection 2019.
Different ways of description can easily influence people's evaluations and behaviors. A previous study by Bryan and colleagues suggested that subtle linguistic differences in ethical reminders can differentially prevent readers' unethical behavior. The present study aims to replicate the previous finding in the Japanese context, additionally exploring the influence of unfamiliar instruction words that capture participants' attention. In two experiments, which are planned to be conducted online, participants are asked to make 10 coin-tosses and report the number of "heads" results, indicating the amount of money that they can earn. We will manipulate instructions ("Don't cheat" vs. "Don't be a cheater" vs. baseline as a control) for each participant group, including nearly 270 participants (Experiment 1). Next, we will conduct an extended experiment with an additional task in which more attention is directed toward the text (Experiment 2). Through these registered experiments, we examine the credibility of the previous finding that type of instruction affects the occurrence of unethical behaviors.
不同的描述方式很容易影响人们的评价和行为。布莱恩及其同事之前的一项研究表明，道德提醒中的细微语言差异能够不同程度地防止读者的不道德行为。本研究旨在在日本背景下重复之前的研究结果，此外还将探究能吸引参与者注意力的陌生指示词的影响。在计划在线进行的两项实验中，参与者被要求抛10次硬币，并报告“正面”结果的次数，这表明他们能赚取的金钱数额。我们将对每个参与者组（包括近270名参与者，实验1）操纵指示语（“不要作弊”与“不要成为作弊者”，并以基线作为对照）。接下来，我们将进行一项扩展实验，增加一项任务，其中更多注意力会指向文本（实验2）。通过这些已注册的实验，我们检验之前关于指示语类型会影响不道德行为发生这一发现的可信度。
