ArticleNature communications2020
Prosociality predicts labor market success around the world.
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- Simulated responses from large language models are weak proxies for human economic preferences across 74 countries.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Gender gaps in patience, risk-taking, trust, and prosociality are smaller among younger cohorts.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- A qualitative study exploring the social contagion of attitudes and uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
- Distinct neural representations for prosocial and self-benefiting effort.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
- Prosociality predicts individual behavior and collective outcomes in the COVID-19 pandemic.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Grit increases strongly in early childhood and is related to parental background.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Older adults across the globe exhibit increased prosocial behavior but also greater in-group preferences.Nature aging · 2021Article
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Abstract
A large literature points to the importance of prosociality for the well-being of societies and individuals. However, most of this work is based on observations from western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societies, questioning the generalizability of these findings. Here we present a global investigation of the relation between prosociality and labor market success. Our analysis uses experimentally validated measures of prosociality and is based on about 80,000 individuals in 76 representative country samples. We show a sizable and robust positive relation between prosociality and labor market success around the world that does not systematically differ across continents or by countries' economic development. These findings generalize the positive relation between prosociality and labor market success to a wide geographical context.
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