Cognitive control and socially desirable behavior: The role of interpersonal impact

• Main Authors: PITESA, Marko, THAU, Stefan, PILLUTLA, Madan M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Socially desirable behavior; Cognitive control; Impulses; Cheating; Resource distributions; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4949
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The current research reconciles two contradicting sets of findings on the role of cognitive control in socially desirable behaviors. One set of findings suggests that people are tempted by self-serving impulses and have to rely on cognitive control overriding such impulses to act in socially desirab...