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Evaluation of performance as a function of performer's reward and attractiveness

Evaluation of performance as a function of performer's reward and attractiveness Ss in this experiment observed 2 people working together at an anagrams task. Ss were told, at the outset, that 1 of the 2 workers was selected by chance to be paid a sizable amount of money for his efforts whereas the other worker was to get nothing. Ss also learned that both workers, though ignorant of their fate, had agreed to do their best. In addition, the 2 workers differed in attractiveness for the Ss––one was considerably more attractive than the other. The major hypotheses of the study were confirmed. Once the outcome was known to the observers they tended to persuade themselves that the person who had been awarded the money by chance had really earned it, after all. Also, when the less attractive worker was selected for payment the performance of the entire group was devalued. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Personality and Social Psychology American Psychological Association

Evaluation of performance as a function of performer's reward and attractiveness

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0022-3514
eISSN
1939-1315
DOI
10.1037/h0021806
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Abstract

Ss in this experiment observed 2 people working together at an anagrams task. Ss were told, at the outset, that 1 of the 2 workers was selected by chance to be paid a sizable amount of money for his efforts whereas the other worker was to get nothing. Ss also learned that both workers, though ignorant of their fate, had agreed to do their best. In addition, the 2 workers differed in attractiveness for the Ss––one was considerably more attractive than the other. The major hypotheses of the study were confirmed. Once the outcome was known to the observers they tended to persuade themselves that the person who had been awarded the money by chance had really earned it, after all. Also, when the less attractive worker was selected for payment the performance of the entire group was devalued.

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – American Psychological Association

Published: Apr 1, 1965

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