No good deed goes unquestioned: Cynical reconstruals maintain belief in the power of self-interest ☆

By Clayton R. Critcher, D. Dunning. 2011

96 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Safety Research

1. Jamil Zaki
2. Alixandra Barasch
3. E. Levine
4. Deborah A. Small
5. Adam M. Grant
6. Paul Slovic
7. George Loewenstein
8. Paul Gilbert

In Social Psychology

1. Yoel Inbar
2. Deborah A. Small
3. Jamil Zaki
4. David A Pizarro
5. E. Levine
6. Alixandra Barasch
7. Clayton R. Critcher
8. Jonathan Z. Berman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Alixandra Barasch
2. Jamil Zaki
3. Yoel Inbar
4. David A Pizarro
5. E. Levine
6. Deborah A. Small
7. Clayton R. Critcher

Citations in the corpus

• How Quick Decisions Illuminate Moral Character (2013, background): “In addition, with further thought, people will reinterpret prosocial acts as having stemmed from selfish motives (Critcher & Dunning, 2011).”
• The Braggart's Dilemma: On the Social Rewards and Penalties of Advertising Prosocial Behavior (2015, background): “Merely reflecting on the reasons why a philanthropist contributed to a charity is enough to trigger suspicion and increase the perception that the philanthropist was motivated by selfish rather than altruistic reasons (Critcher and Dunning 2011).”
• Catastrophe Compassion: Understanding and Extending Prosociality Under Crisis (2020, background): “Individuals tend to be unduly cynical about human nature, for instance demonstrably overestimating the extent that people are driven by self-interest [51, 52].”