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Prosocial behavior

Children adjust behavior in novel social environment to reflect local prosocial norms inferred from brief exposure

Kari Britt Schroeder, Laura Nelson Darling, Peter R. Blake

published 09 Jul 2025

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The effect of Animal-assisted therapy on prosocial behavior and emotional regulation in autistic children with varying verbal abilities: A pilot study

Michele Kilmer, Minju Hong, Victor Akakpo, Terria Hawley, Danielle Randolph, Sarah Huetter, Allison Reichel, Madelyn Bowden

published 01 Jul 2025

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Cooperation is not rewarded by friendship, but generous and selfish students repel each other in social networks

Flóra Samu, Simone Piras, Simone Righi, Marco Setti, Károly Takács

published 25 Jun 2025

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Science as a commons: Motivations for continued participation in citizen science projects

Maite Pelacho, Santos Orejudo, Jesús Clemente-Gallardo

published 25 Jun 2025

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Exchange and Communal Orientations (ECO) scale: The construction and validation of a method to measure target-specific relational orientations

Agata Gasiorowska, Anna O. Kuzminska, Tomasz Zaleskiewicz

published 03 Jun 2025

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Age-related differences in trust beliefs during middle childhood: Downward-extension and validation of the general trust scale

Alex R. Wheeler, Donna M. Bayliss, Jeneva Ohan

published 30 May 2025

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Does feeling collective responsibility for intergroup harm lead to infrahumanization?

Robert A. Brennan, Florence E. Enock, Carl J. Bunce, Harriet Over

published 29 May 2025

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Wild gelada monkeys detect emotional and prosocial cues in vocal exchanges during aggression

Luca Pedruzzi, Martina Francesconi, Alice Galotti, Bezawork Afework Bogale, Elisabetta Palagi, Alban Lemasson

published 14 May 2025

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Expectations regarding the effectiveness of mask-wearing and pandemic fatigue: The experience in Japan

Akihiro Kawase, Mototsugu Fukushige

published 14 May 2025

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Family environment and prosocial behavior tendency of college students: The chain mediating role of empathy and moral sensitivity

Huan Song, Shijie Fan, Yuan Zhao, Yue Wang

published 09 May 2025

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Mask wearing as a prosocial behavior: Proposing and testing the moral norms activation model

Monique M. Turner, Youjin Jang, Ruth Heo, Qijia Ye, Rachel Wade, Maria Knight Lapinski, Tai-Quan Peng

published 09 May 2025

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Thinking of norms—or being told what they are: The effect of social information on donation decisions

Hagit Sabato

published 25 Apr 2025

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Extraordinary siblings: Mole rats, marmosets, and Radcliffe-Brown

Doug Jones

published 28 Mar 2025

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