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On the benign qualities of behavioral disinhibition : because of the prosocial nature of people , behavioral disinhibition can weaken pleasure with getting more than you deserve . This article focuses on social situations in which people are surprised about what is happening and inhibited about how to respond to the situation at hand . We study these situations by examining a classic topic in social psychology : how people respond to receiving better outcomes than are deserved . In these situations , the actions of an authority or a coworker push in the direction of accepting and enjoying the unfair outcome , whereas personal values for most people push in the direction of rejecting or being displeased with the outcome . This conflict may inhibit people 's response to the advantageous but unfair outcomes . If people are indeed inhibited about how to respond to these kinds of outcomes , then lowering behavioral inhibition by reminding people of having acted in the past without inhibitions ( in a manner that is unrelated to the outcomes participants subsequently receive ) should affect reactions to the outcomes . Specifically , we hypothesize that because many people are prosocial and want to adhere to principles of fairness , reminders of behavioral disinhibition will lead to less pleasure with the unfairly obtained outcomes . The results of 8 experiments ( conducted both inside and outside the psychology laboratory ) revealed evidence for this benign disinhibition effect on various reactions to outcomes that are better than deserved . In further accordance with our line of reasoning , the effect is particularly pronounced among those who adhere to a prosocial orientation or who have adopted a prosocial mindset and is not observed among those with proself orientations or mindsets .
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behavioral disinhibition
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behavioral disinhibition
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experiments
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inside and outside the psychology laboratory
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behavioral disinhibition
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prosocial nature of people
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people respond to receiving better outcomes than are deserved