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Retribution and emotional regulation: The effects of time delay in angry economic interactions |
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| Authors: | Cynthia S. Wang Niro SivanathanJayanth Narayanan Deshani B. GanegodaMonika Bauer Galen V. BodenhausenKeith Murnighan |
| Affiliation: | a NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ 2, Storey 8, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245, Singapore b University of Michigan, National Center for Institutional Diversity, 3338 School of Education Building, 610 East University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA c London Business School, Organisational Behaviour, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4SA, UK d University of Central Florida, Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Orlando, FL 32816, USA e Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA f Northwestern University, Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA |
| Abstract: | Individuals driven by negative emotions often punish non-cooperators at a cost to themselves. The current research demonstrates that, although time delays can attenuate this effect, they can also produce unintended consequences. Five experiments investigated the effects of time delays and thought patterns on punishments in direct and third party interactions. The results show that time delays decreased punishment (Experiment 1) by reducing negative emotions (Experiments 2A and 2B). However, thought patterns during a delay were crucially important (Experiments 3A and 3B): People who engaged in a distraction task punished less; people who engaged in affective rumination punished more; and people who engaged in cognitive reappraisal were unaffected by a delay. These differences meant that, after a time delay, affective ruminators administered greater punishments than cognitive reappraisers or distracted individuals. Implications of these findings for managing punitive impulses via time delays are discussed. |
| Keywords: | Time delay Retribution Emotional regulation Anger Rumination |
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