The results of nine experiments suggest that money brings about a self-sufficient orientation in which people prefer to be free of dependency and dependents. Reminders of money, relative to nonmoney reminders, led to reduced requests for help and reduced helpfulness toward others.
Relative to participants primed with neutral concepts, participants primed with money… Expand. View on AAAS. Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. Background Citations. Methods Citations. Results Citations. Topics from this paper. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Money plays a significant role in people's lives, and yet little experimental attention has been given to the psychological underpinnings of money.
We systematically varied whether and to what extent … Expand. View 1 excerpt, cites background. Highly Influenced. View 6 excerpts, cites results, background and methods. The participants who were primed with a fish screen saver or no screen saver were more likely to work with a peer while those primed with money preferred to work alone. The researchers wanted to know if money causes people to behave self-sufficiently.
If money does cause someone to experience self-sufficiency, then having less money would cause less self-sufficiency. Self-sufficiently in this report is described as when someone is individualistic and puts in work to achieve personal goals.
The report also mentions that this term is not associated with being a desirable or undesirable quality. An additional theory was that money can be viewed as both a tool and a drug. This means that money is valued by people for its instrumentality. This study focuses on an experiment. According to Park , experiments are a research method that involves a manipulation, in this case, money. The three experimental groups included play money, money prime, and a control group.
The most powerful advantage of experiments is that they are the only way to prove causation Park, In this study, the cause and effect were correlated. In terms of internal validity, the only thing the researchers changed was the manipulation — money.
According to Park , for an experiment to have internal validity, the only differentiation between the experiment conditions is the researcher intentionally manipulating the variable. There are a variety of threats to internal validity which include confound variables, history effect, maturation, instrumentation, experimenter effect and experimenter bias, selection bias, experimental mortality, and demoralization Park, The researchers found that despite the manipulations being minor environmental changes or small tasks, the magnitude of the effects was notable.
The potential threats to internal validity in this experiment could have been instrumentation, testing, regression to the mean, and demoralization.
The threats that are unlikely to occur in this experiment are history effect, maturation, confound variables, selection bias, and experimental mortality. In addition to internal validity, temporal sequence is fulfilled in this experiment. This means that the manipulation occurred before the effect or outcome was measured Park, The experimenters used a variety of dependent variables to measure the effects, including time, number of pencils gathered, monetary donations, and percentage of participants who asked for help.
Another topic relevant to this experiment is sampling. The method used in this study was probability sampling. According to Park , the assignment process involved randomizing, so all participants had the equal opportunity to be selected. The types of probability sampling include simple random sampling, systematic random sampling, and stratified random sampling Park, One strength of this experiment is randomization. The study conducted is an experiment, so the subjects must be assigned into groups.
According to Park , for the results to be accurate, the assignment must be random. If the experiment and control group assignments are biased, there could be errors in the study results. Mead, Miranda R. Money has been said to change people's motivation mainly for the better and their behavior toward others mainly for the worse.
The results of nine experiments suggest that money brings about a self-sufficient orientation in which people prefer to be free of dependency and dependents.
Reminders of money, relative to nonmoney reminders, led to reduced requests for help and reduced helpfulness toward others. Relative to participants primed with neutral concepts, participants primed with money preferred to play alone, work alone, and put more physical distance between themselves and a new acquaintance. The psychological consequences of money. N2 - Money has been said to change people's motivation mainly for the better and their behavior toward others mainly for the worse.
AB - Money has been said to change people's motivation mainly for the better and their behavior toward others mainly for the worse.
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