Some of the experiments involved contagion effects from friends with high or low self-control. I wonder if we see the opposite effect when our enemies display these traits. It has previously been shown that when we see outsiders cheating, we cheat less, but when in-group members cheat, we cheat more.
That… is an interesting question. What happens when we explicitly see outsiders cheating less, though? ie, do we effectively do a “I’m better than them, so if they can be that good, I can be better”? or something else?
I wonder if self-control might be seen as a bad thing in that case—like in that study with the eagles and rattlers where arbitrary qualities were seen as “good” by one group and therefore “bad” by the other.
Some of the experiments involved contagion effects from friends with high or low self-control. I wonder if we see the opposite effect when our enemies display these traits. It has previously been shown that when we see outsiders cheating, we cheat less, but when in-group members cheat, we cheat more.
That… is an interesting question. What happens when we explicitly see outsiders cheating less, though? ie, do we effectively do a “I’m better than them, so if they can be that good, I can be better”? or something else?
I wonder if self-control might be seen as a bad thing in that case—like in that study with the eagles and rattlers where arbitrary qualities were seen as “good” by one group and therefore “bad” by the other.