Previous research indicates that the depletion of self-regulatory resources can promote unethical behavior that benefits the self. Extending this literature, we focus on norm-transgressing behavior that is intended to primarily benefit others. In particular, we predicted a differing effect of...

Successful communication requires close attention to the common ground of the ongoing conversation. Because attentiveness to others is a self-defining goal within an interdependent construal of self, but less so within an independent construal of self, we expected that self-construal influences...