ArticlePsychological science2021
When Helping Is Risky: The Behavioral and Neurobiological Trade-off of Social and Risk Preferences.
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- Construction and validation of the prosocial adolescent risk-taking questionnaire (PAR-Q).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The development of prosocial risk-taking behavior: Mechanisms and opportunities.Child development perspectives · 2025Article
- Dual-System Collaborative Model of Prosocial Risky Behavior and Cognitive Computation: A Review.PsyCh journal · 2025Review
- The Impact of Online Pandemic-Related Information on Prosocial Behavior among Healthcare Students: The Role of Emotional Contagion and Epistemic Motivation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Toward a Unifying Account of Dopamine's Role in Cost-Benefit Decision Making.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2023Review
- Are you more risk-seeking when helping others? Effects of situational urgency and peer presence on prosocial risky behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Helping other people can entail risks for the helper. For example, when treating infectious patients, medical volunteers risk their own health. In such situations, decisions to help should depend on the individual's valuation of others' well-being (social preferences) and the degree of personal risk the individual finds acceptable (risk preferences). We investigated how these distinct preferences are psychologically and neurobiologically integrated when helping is risky. We used incentivized decision-making tasks (Study 1;
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