Self-control Failure Increases a Strategic Preference for Submission as Means to Avoid Future Failure

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<p>A plethora of theories on human motives proposes that people have a fundamental need for control and an intrinsic desire to avoid submission to others. The current paper investigated an important exception to this general claim. Five experiments show that self-control failure leads people to strategically prioritize more social submission. In Experiments 1 to 3, salience of self-control failure increased the pr...

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• Altruism
• Biological Evolution
• Competitive Behavior
• Cooperative Behavior
• Models, Psychological
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Social Perception

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e612162a-0ceb-5f36-a2ea-d3a27eab89cd

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10.31234/osf.io/94gyq