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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Children vary markedly in their tendency to behave prosocially, and recent research has implicated both genetic and environmental factors in this variability.
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Opting-in to prosocial incentives [PDF]
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2018 Abstract The design of effective incentive schemes that are both successful in motivating employees and keeping down costs is of critical importance. Research has demonstrated that prosocial incentives, where individuals’ effort benefits a charitable organization, can sometimes be more effective than standard monetary incentives.
Schwartz, Daniel +3 more
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Prosocial Behavior Increases with Age across Five Economic Games. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Ontogenic studies of human prosociality generally agree on that human prosociality increases from early childhood through early adulthood; however, it has not been established if prosociality increases beyond early adulthood.
Yoshie Matsumoto +3 more
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Prosocial behavior and gender [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 This study revisits different experimental data sets that explore social behavior in economic games and uncovers that many treatment effects may be gender-specific. In general, men and women do not differ in "neutral" baselines. However, we find that social framing tends to reinforce prosocial behavior in women but not men, whereas encouraging ...
Maria Paz eEspinosa +2 more
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Resting state brain subnetwork relates to prosociality and compassion in adolescents
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Adolescence is a crucial time for social development, especially for helping (prosocial) and compassionate behaviors; yet brain networks involved in adolescent prosociality and compassion currently remain underexplored.
Benjamin S. Sipes +6 more
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2004 We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed, and this “overjustification effect” can induce a partial or even ...
Bénabou, Roland, Tirole, Jean
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The fast-paced lifestyle resulting from China's rapid economic development has caused more than 500 million sudden cardiac deaths in 2020. Online first-aid education for the public is considered a key potential solution to avoid such incidents and would ...
Shuo Zhang +3 more
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The Concept of Prosociality in Later Life and Its Dimensions: A Scoping Review
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 Objective: The aim of this study was to clarify various aspects and dimensions of the prosociality concept in later life as an important concept that gains significance in people as they age.
Tahereh Ramezani +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2018 Global challenges such as climate change or the refugee crises emphasize the necessity of altruism and cooperation. In a large-scale 9-month intervention study, we investigated the malleability of prosociality by three distinct mental trainings ...
Anne Böckler +3 more
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In Search of the Prosocial Personality
Journal of Individual Differences, 2019 Abstract. Prosocial behavior is intended to benefit others rather than oneself and is positively linked to personality traits such as Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility, and usually negatively to the Dark Triad traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy).
Wertag, Anja, Bratko, Denis
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