Incentive Conditions and Social Desirability as Determinants of Behavioral Variance on a Temptation Task.

Nelsen, Edward A.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1980-Dec

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Incentive Conditions and Social Desirability as Determinants of Behavioral Variance on a Temptation Task.

Nelsen, Edward A.; And Others

Child Development, v51 n4 p1260-67 Dec 1980

Seventh-grade children participated under two successive incentive conditions (self-prize and other prize) in a study of transgression behavior in a temptation task in which children were alternately offered a self-gratifying and an altruisitic incentive for successful performance. Most subjects behaved consistently across the incentive conditions. (Author/RH)

Descriptors: Altruism, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Incentives, Individual Characteristics, Motivation, Personality

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