No interest in being cynical: Conflicting versus corresponding interests track variability in the link between personal control and cynicism

• Main Author: CHOY, Bryan Kwok Cheng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Cynicism; personal control; conflicting and corresponding interests; vulnerability to exploitation; Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology and Interaction
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/509; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/etd_coll/article/1507/viewcontent/GPPS_AY2022_PhD_Bryan_Choy_Kwok_Cheng.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent literature indicates that a lack of personal control negatively predicts (social) cynicism, a negative view of others as self-interested and exploitative (Stavrova & Ehlebracht, 2018a, 2019). Despite the ostensibly robust nature of this relationship, I propose that the strength of the lin...