ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Are you more risk-seeking when helping others? Effects of situational urgency and peer presence on prosocial risky behavior.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A study of the prosocial behavior of middle-aged and elderly sports club members: a network analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Does the risk-taking behaviour of a group influence individual risk-taking behaviour?Royal Society open science · 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
- Do achievers tend to share goodness with the world? The effect of subjective social status on prosocial risky behavior.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Prosocial risky behavior (PRB) proposes that individuals take risks for others' benefits or social welfare, and that this may involve trade-offs between risk and social preferences. However, little is known about the underlying cognitive mechanisms of risk-seeking or aversion during PRB. Methods: This study adopted the dilemma-priming paradigm to examine the interaction between the risk levels of personal cost and situational urgency on PRB (Experiment 1, Results: In Experiment 1, the participants involved in risky dilemmas made more altruistic choices for strangers in urgent situations compared to those for strangers in non-urgent situations. However, increasing the risk levels of personal cost decreased the frequencies of help offered to strangers in urgent situations. Experiment 2 further established that, similar to the risk of personal cost, increasing the risk levels of failure when helping others also decreased the frequencies of help offered to strangers in urgent situations. Furthermore, in dilemmas involving a low-risk personal cost, Experiment 3 showed that peer presence encouraged the participants to make more altruistic choices when providing help to strangers in non-urgent situations. Discussion: Individuals demonstrate obvious risk-seeking behavior when helping others and that both non-urgent situations and peer presence weaken the effect of increased risk aversion on PRB in a limited manner.
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