Prosocial behaviors constitute vital ingredients for all types of social interactions and
relationships as well as for society at large. Corresponding to this significance, the study of …

Prosocial behaviour is fundamental for our social togetherness. Yet, how acute stress, a
common everyday occurrence, influences our behaviours towards one another is still …

It has become an accepted paradigm that humans have “prosocial preferences” that lead to
higher levels of cooperation than those that would maximize their personal financial gain …

Despite their distinct objects of study, the human behavioral sciences all include models of
individual human behavior. Unity in the behavioral sciences requires that there be a …

Decades of research document individual differences in prosocial behavior using controlled
experiments that model social interactions in situations of interdependence. However …

Behavioral and neuroscientific studies explore two pathways through which internalized
social norms promote prosocial behavior. One pathway involves internal control of impulsive …

Economic games are well-established experimental paradigms for modeling social decision
making. A large body of literature has pointed to the heterogeneity of behavior within many …

We observed the behaviors of the same people across five games–two prisoner's dilemma
games, a trust game (in which the subject took on the role of both truster and trustee), a …

Recent research has highlighted the role of prosocial personality traits—agreeableness and
honesty-humility—in egalitarian distributions of wealth in the dictator game. Expanding on …

An increasing number of studies call into question the external validity of social preference
games. In this paper, we show that these games have a low correlation with single pro …