When happiness makes us selfish, but sadness makes us fair: Affective influences on interpersonal strategies in the dictator game

By Hui Bing Tan, Joseph P. Forgas. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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• Don’t Worry, Be Sad! On the Cognitive, Motivational, and Interpersonal Benefits of Negative Mood (2013, unknown): “…people have to divide a scarce resource between themselves and others, as is the case in the dictator game, we found that happy allocators were more selfish, and sad allocators were more fair, and these mood effects became stronger as allocation trials progressed (Tan & Forgas, 2010; see Figure 6).”