Sustained cooperative social interactions are key to successful outcomes in many real-world contexts (e.g., climate change and energy conservation). We explore the self-regulatory roles of anger and guilt, as well as prosocial or selfish social preferences in a repeated social dilemma game framed around shared electricity use at home. We explore the proposal that for sustained cooperation, guil...

1 Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Psychology Research Laboratory, Ospedale San Giuseppe, 28824 Verbania, Italy 2Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, 20123 Milan, Italy 3Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy 4School of Psychology, Social Work & Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, ...

One of the most heavily debated questions in implicit social cognition is the extent to which implicit measures can be voluntarily controlled. The experiment reported here is the first to employ a novel strategy for intentionally controlling performance in the autobiographical Implicit Association Test (aIAT). Specifically, when explicitly instructed to do so, participants were able to speed up...