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Differential effects of MDMA and methylphenidate on social cognition [PDF]
, 2014 Social cognition is important in everyday-life social interactions. The social cognitive effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, 'ecstasy') and methylphenidate (both used for neuroenhancement and as party drugs) are largely unknown.
Crockett, Molly J. +5 more
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Prosocial Consequences of Imitation [PDF]
Psychological Reports, 2012 Research has shown that helping behavior can be primed easily. However, helping decreases significantly in the presence of inhibition cues, signaling high costs for the executor. On the other hand, multiple studies demonstrated that helping behavior increases after being mimicked.
Müller, B.C.N. +3 more
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Measuring Social Value Orientation [PDF]
, 2011 Narrow self-interest is often used as a simplifying assumption when studying people making decisions in social contexts. Nonetheless, people exhibit a wide range of different motivations when choosing unilaterally among interdependent outcomes. Measuring
Ackermann, K.A. +2 more
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, 2017 Book review for: "Darwin's unfinished symphony: How culture made the human mind" By Kevin N. Laland. Princeton: Princeton University Press. xiv, 450 p. $35.00 (hardcover).
Cartmill, Matt
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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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The Influence of Divine Rewards and Punishments on Religious Prosociality
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 A common finding across many cultures has been that religious people behave more prosocially than less (or non-) religious people. Numerous priming studies have demonstrated that the activation of religious concepts via implicit and explicit cues (e.g., ‘
James Saleam, Ahmed A. Moustafa
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Prosociality predicts labor market success around the world
Nature Communications, 2020 Previous research on the importance of prosociality is based on observations from WEIRD societies, questioning the generalizability of these findings. Here the authors present a global investigation of the relation between prosociality and labor market ...
Fabian Kosse, Michela M. Tincani
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Teaching varies with task complexity in wild chimpanzees
, 2020 Understanding social influences on how apes acquire tool behaviors can help us model the evolution of culture and technology in humans. Humans scaffold novice tool skills with diverse strategies, including the transfer of tools between individuals ...
Bernstein-Kurtycz, L. +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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Preschool children fail primate prosocial game because of attentional task demands. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Various nonhuman primate species have been tested with prosocial games (i.e. derivates from dictator games) in order to better understand the evolutionary origin of proactive prosociality in humans. Results of these efforts are mixed, and it is difficult
Judith Maria Burkart, Katja Rueth
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