Alcala Valerie, Johnson Kendra, Steele Caroline, Wu Juanshu, Zhang Donglai, Pashler Harold
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, 9300 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
R Soc Open Sci. 2022 Jan 26;9(1):211152. doi: 10.1098/rsos.211152. eCollection 2022 Jan.
Newman and Cain (Newman, Cain 2014 , 648-655 (doi:10.1177/0956797613504785)) reported that observers view a person's choices as less ethical when that person has acted in response to both altruistic and selfish (commercial) motivations, as compared with purely selfish interests. The altruistic component reduces the observers' approval rather than raising it. This puzzling phenomenon termed the 'tainted altruism' effect, has attracted considerable interest but no direct replications in prior research. We report direct replications of Newman and Cain's Experiments 2 and 3, using a larger sample ( = 501) intended to be fairly representative of the US population. The results confirm the original findings in considerable detail.
纽曼和凯恩(纽曼、凯恩,2014年,第648 - 655页(doi:10.1177/0956797613504785))报告称,与纯粹出于自私利益的情况相比,当一个人的行为是出于利他和自私(商业)两种动机时,观察者会认为这个人的选择在道德上不那么可取。利他成分会降低观察者的认可度,而不是提高它。这种被称为“受污染的利他主义”效应的令人困惑的现象,在先前的研究中引起了相当大的兴趣,但没有直接的重复验证。我们使用一个更大的样本( = 501)对纽曼和凯恩的实验2和实验3进行了直接重复验证,该样本旨在相当具有美国人口的代表性。结果相当详细地证实了最初的发现。