 Spite and preemptive retaliation after tournamentsJohanna Jauernig and Matthias Uhl Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, vol. 158, issue C, 328-336 Abstract: We investigated money burning after tournaments. First, we show that substantial money burning was triggered if participants perceived a situation as competitive. Second, we investigated to which extent aggression between former contestants was motivated by preemptive retaliation or spite. To disentangle both motives, we introduced a credible and visible self-binding signal. Contrary to previous studies, we found that aggression against a defenceless subject played an important role. Preemptive retaliation proved to be another dominant motive. We conclude that voluntary self-binding signals may have the potential to mitigate but not eliminate antisocial behavior after a competition, because it seems to be driven by spite to a large extent. Our results help us to better understand and eventually mitigate destructive behavior in work environments. Keywords: Competition; Tournaments; Money burning; Preemptive retaliation; Spite; Self-binding (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jeborg:v:158:y:2019:i:c:p:328-336 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.12.001 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization is currently edited by Houser, D. and Puzzello, D. More articles in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization from Elsevier |
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