Table 2.
State self-control and the tendency toward moral behavior as a function of experimental conditions in Experiment 2.
| Measure | Control |
Low-level construal |
High-level construal |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Mean RT in incongruent trials (ms)a | 771.40 | 156.29 | 763.33 | 134.31 | 662.70 | 176.65 |
| Mean RT in congruent trials (ms) | 635.90 | 139.01 | 622.20 | 117.47 | 561.13 | 152.24 |
| Self-control measure (ms)a | 135.50 | 39.98 | 141.13 | 44.36 | 101.57 | 45.64 |
| Money offered in the game (NT $0–160)a | 46.17 | 19.86 | 49.83 | 15.84 | 61.50 | 13.53 |
| Likelihood of returning undeserved money (%)a | 50.0 | 9.1 | 46.7 | 9.1 | 76.7 | 7.7 |
aThese measures of the high-level condition were significantly different from those of the low-construal and control conditions, and there were no differences in these measures between the low-level construal and control conditions. Each condition involved 30 participants. The self-control measure was indexed by the mean difference in reaction time between incongruent and congruent trials in the Stroop task. Less Stroop interference indicates greater state self-control.