The Sticky Anchor Hypothesis: Ego Depletion Increases Susceptibility to Situational Cues
2017
Self-control depletion has been linked both to increased
selfishbehavior and increased susceptibility to situational cues. The present research tested two competing hypotheses about the consequence of depletion by measuring how people allocate rewards between themselves and another person. Seven experiments analyzed behavior in standard
dictator gamesand reverse
dictator games, settings in which participants could take money from another person. Across all of these experiments, depleted participants made smaller changes to the initial allocation, thereby sticking closer to the default position (anchor) than non-depleted participants. These findings provide support for a “sticky anchor hypothesis,” which states that the effects of depletion on behavior are influenced by the proximal situational cues rather than by directly stimulating
selfishnessper se. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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