Mindfulness is a hot topic in psychological research and the popular media. One central
claim in the literature is that enhanced mindfulness fosters prosocial behavior. This article …

Terror management theory postulates that mortality salience (MS) increases the motivation
to defend one's cultural worldviews. How that motivation is expressed may depend on the …

Occasionally, people trade monetary gains for moral costs and engage in dishonest
behavior. Based on research showing that people react more sensitively toward a possible …

Why do people give and help others in face of their own mortality salience? The existential
struggle with the awareness of death impacts the gamut of human cognition, emotion, and …

Terror management theory (TMT) posits that mortality salience (MS) leads to more negative
perceptions of persons who oppose one's worldview and to more positive perceptions of …

In public goods situations, a specific destructive behaviour reliably emerges when
individuals face the possibility of costly punishing others: antisocial punishment, that is …

Recent research on humans' prosociality has highlighted the crucial role of Honesty-
Humility, a basic trait in the HEXACO personality model. There is overwhelming evidence …

This research proposes that mortality salience leads individuals to engage in differentiation
of excessive consumption based on their appraisal of the karmic system. Study 1 …

Despite calls from governments to clamp down on violent extremist material in the online
sphere, in the name of preventing radicalisation and therefore terrorism research …

Human beings have a general tendency for reciprocity in most societies. The internalized
reciprocity norm assumption suggests that reciprocity disposition would encourage …