Reports the retraction of "Why connect? Moral consequences of networking with a promotion or prevention focus" by Francesca Gino, Maryam Kouchaki and Tiziana Casciaro (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020[Dec], Vol 119[6], 1221-1238). This retraction is at the request of the Research Integrity Officer at Harvard Business School after the results of a review into data for Study 3a collected and analyzed by Francesca Gino. The review identified unexplained discrepancies between (a) the data associated with Study 3a in the Open Science Framework platform and (b) the original, raw data collected in Qualtrics. These discrepancies, which involved 28% of the total data from Study 3a, biased the published results in the direction of the study hypothesis. A reanalysis of the original data invalidated the previous conclusion from the study. The report of the investigation did not concern either Maryam Kouchaki or Tiziana Casciaro, who agree with the retraction. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2020-42384-001.) Networks are a key source of social capital for achieving goals in professional and personal settings. Yet, despite the clear benefits of having an extensive network, individuals often shy away from the opportunity to create new connections because engaging in instrumental networking can make them feel morally impure. In this article, we explore how the motives people have when engaging in networking impact these feelings and, as result, change how frequently they engage in networking and their job performance. Across a correlational survey study, a laboratory experiment (with samples from the United States and Italy), two online studies, an organizational network survey study, and a field experiment with professionals (total N = 2,551), we examine how self-regulatory focus, whether promotion or prevention, affects people's experience of and outcomes from networking. We find that a promotion focus, as compared to a prevention focus or a control condition, is beneficial to professional networking, as it lowers feelings of moral impurity from instrumental networking. As such, networking with a promotion focus increases the frequency of instrumental networking as compared to a control condition, whereas networking with a prevention focus decreases frequency of instrumental networking as compared to a control condition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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吉诺等人撤回。（2020）。

报告撤回 Francesca Gino、Maryam Kouchaki 和 Tiziana Casciaro 撰写的“为什么要建立联系？以促进或预防为重点的网络的道德后果”（《人格与社会心理学杂志》，2020 年[12 月]，第 119 卷[6]，1221-1238） ）。此次撤回是应哈佛商学院研究诚信官员的要求，在对弗朗西斯卡·吉诺收集和分析的研究 3a 数据进行审查后。审查发现 (a) 开放科学框架平台中与研究 3a 相关的数据和 (b) Qualtrics 中收集的原始数据之间存在无法解释的差异。这些差异涉及研究 3a 总数据的 28%，使已发表的结果与研究假设的方向存在偏差。对原始数据的重新分析使之前的研究结论无效。玛丽亚姆·库查基 (Maryam Kouchaki) 或蒂齐亚娜·卡西亚罗 (Tiziana Casciaro) 均不关心调查报告，他们同意撤回调查报告。（以下原文章摘要出现在记录 2020-42384-001 中。）网络是实现专业和个人目标的社会资本的关键来源。然而，尽管拥有广泛的人际网络有明显的好处，但人们常常回避建立新关系的机会，因为参与工具性人际网络会让他们感到道德不纯洁。在本文中，我们探讨了人们参与社交活动时的动机如何影响这些感受，从而改变他们参与社交活动的频率和工作绩效。通过一项相关调查研究、一项实验室实验（样本来自美国和意大利）、两项在线研究、一项组织网络调查研究以及一项针对专业人员的现场实验（总计 N = 2,551），我们研究了自我监管焦点如何无论是促进还是预防，都会影响人们的网络体验和结果。我们发现，与预防焦点或控制条件相比，促进焦点有利于职业网络，因为它降低了工具性网络中的道德不洁感。因此，与控制条件相比，具有促进焦点的联网增加了工具性联网的频率，而与控制条件相比，具有预防焦点的联网降低了工具性联网的频率。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。