Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis.

I Thielmann, G Spadaro, D Balliet - Psychological bulletin, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Decades of research document individual differences in prosocial behavior using controlled
experiments that model social interactions in situations of interdependence. However …

Mathematical foundations of moral preferences

V Capraro, M Perc - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One-shot anonymous unselfishness in economic games is commonly explained by social
preferences, which assume that people care about the monetary pay-offs of others …

The effect of messaging and gender on intentions to wear a face covering to slow down COVID-19 transmission

V Capraro, H Barcelo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05467, 2020 - arxiv.org
Now that various countries are or will soon be moving towards relaxing shelter-in-place
rules, it is important that people use a face covering, to avoid an exponential resurgence of …

The psychology of morality: A review and analysis of empirical studies published from 1940 through 2017

N Ellemers, J Van Der Toorn… - Personality and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We review empirical research on (social) psychology of morality to identify which issues and
relations are well documented by existing data and which areas of inquiry are in need of …

On the relation of boredom and sadistic aggression.

S Pfattheicher, LB Lazarević, EC Westgate… - Journal of Personality …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
What gives rise to sadism? While sadistic behavior (ie, harming others for pleasure) is well-
documented, past empirical research is nearly silent regarding the psychological factors …

From outcome-based to language-based preferences

V Capraro, JY Halpern, M Perc - Journal of Economic Literature, 2024 - aeaweb.org
We review the literature on models that try to explain human behavior in social interactions
described by normal-form games with monetary payoffs. We start by covering social and …

The evolution of trust and trustworthiness

A Kumar, V Capraro, M Perc - Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Trust and trustworthiness form the basis for continued social and economic interactions, and
they are also fundamental for cooperation, fairness, honesty, and indeed for many other …

Do the right thing: Experimental evidence that preferences for moral behavior, rather than equity or efficiency per se, drive human prosociality

V Capraro, DG Rand - Judgment and Decision Making, 2018 - cambridge.org
Decades of experimental research show that some people forgo personal gains to benefit
others in unilateral anonymous interactions. To explain these results, behavioral economists …

Doing good vs. avoiding bad in prosocial choice: A refined test and extension of the morality preference hypothesis

BM Tappin, V Capraro - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Prosociality is fundamental to human social life, and, accordingly, much research has
attempted to explain human prosocial behavior. Capraro and Rand (Judgment and Decision …

Language matters: how normative expressions shape norm perception and affect norm compliance

J Kuang, C Bicchieri - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Previous studies have used various normative expressions such as 'should','appropriate'and
'approved'interchangeably to communicate injunctions and social norms. However, little is …