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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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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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How Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Act on Prosociality: The Mediation Role of Moral Evaluation [PDF]
, 2017 Prosociality is related to numerous positive outcomes, and mechanisms underlying individual differences in prosociality have been widely discussed. Recently, research has found converging evidence on the influence of the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene on ...
Nan Wu, Siyuan Shang, Yanjie Su
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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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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 and Social Responsibility Were Associated With Intention of COVID-19 Vaccination Among University Students in China [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination is expected to end the pandemic; a high coverage rate is required to meet this end. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of behavioral intention of free/self-paid COVID-19 vaccination ...
Yanqiu Yu +8 more
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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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Heroic Helping: The Effects of Priming Superhero Images on Prosociality [PDF]
, 2018 Two experiments examined how exposure to superhero images influences both prosociality and meaning in life. In Experiment 1 (N = 246) exposed individuals to scenes with superhero images or neutral images. Individuals primed with superhero images reported
Cairo, Athena +9 more
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Vaccines, 2022 Outcome expectancies involving self-directed and others-directed domains are potential determinants of completed or scheduled first-dose COVID-19 vaccination (CSFCV). This study investigated factors of CSFCV, including (a) self-directed motives [personal
Yanqiu Yu +2 more
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Games, 2021 While the ontogeny of prosociality during infancy, childhood, and adolescence has received substantial attention over the last decades, little is known about how prosocial preferences develop beyond emerging adulthood.
Alexander Ehlert +5 more
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