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The effects of priming legal concepts on perceived trust and competitiveness, self-interested attitudes, and competitive behavior |
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| Authors: | Mitchell J. Callan Aaron C. Kay Novjyot Brar |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom b Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1 c Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C2 d Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G5 e Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 |
| Abstract: | Socio-legal scholars have suggested that, as a ubiquitous social system, law shapes social reality and provides interpretive frameworks for social relations. Across five studies, we tested the idea that the law shapes social reality by fostering the assumptions that people are self-interested, untrustworthy, and competitive. In Studies 1 and 2, we found that people implicitly associated legal concepts with competitiveness. Studies 3-5 showed that these associations had implications for social perceptions, self-interested attitudes, and competitive behavior. After being primed with constructs related to the law, participants perceived social actors as less trustworthy and the situation as more competitive (Study 3), became more against a political issue when it conflicted with their normative self-interest (Study 4), and made more competitive choices during a prisoner’s dilemma game when they believed that social relations were basically zero-sum in nature (Study 5). The implications and applications of these results are discussed. |
| Keywords: | Psychology of law Psycho-legal Self-interest Interpersonal trust Competitiveness Legal consciousness Priming |
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