Temptation at work
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Temptation at work. / Bucciol, Alessandro; Houser, Daniel; Piovesan, Marco.
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T1 - Temptation at work
AU - Bucciol, Alessandro
AU - Houser, Daniel
AU - Piovesan, Marco
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - To encourage worker productivity, companies routinely adopt policies requiring employees to delay gratification. For example, offices might prohibit use of the internet for personal purposes during regular business hours. Recent work in social psychology, however, suggests that using willpower to delay gratification can negatively impact performance. We report data from an experiment where subjects in a Willpower Treatment are asked to resist the temptation to join others in watching a humorous video for 10 minutes. In relation to a baseline treatment that does not require willpower, we show that resisting this temptation detrimentally impacts economic productivity on a subsequent task.
AB - To encourage worker productivity, companies routinely adopt policies requiring employees to delay gratification. For example, offices might prohibit use of the internet for personal purposes during regular business hours. Recent work in social psychology, however, suggests that using willpower to delay gratification can negatively impact performance. We report data from an experiment where subjects in a Willpower Treatment are asked to resist the temptation to join others in watching a humorous video for 10 minutes. In relation to a baseline treatment that does not require willpower, we show that resisting this temptation detrimentally impacts economic productivity on a subsequent task.
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0053713
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0053713
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 23382849
VL - 8
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 1
M1 - e53713
ER -
ID: 42003110