ArticlePsychology research and behavior management2025
The Effect of Positive Emotions on Prosocial Behavior During Ego-Depletion: Evidence From fNIRS.
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- The stereotypical effect of gendered nicknames on prosocial behavior in online interactions: a chain mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Purpose: The psychological and neural mechanisms between relieving ego depletion and prosocial behavior have yet to be clearly explored. To address this, we combined behavioral experiments and fNIRS to explore how positive emotions promote prosocial tendencies under ego depletion. Methods: In Experiment 1, 119 college participants (M Results: Experiment 1 showed that participants in the low ego depletion group had a significantly higher bonus allocation amount than the high ego depletion group (t (62) =-2.24, p < 0.05). Experiment 2 showed that after both groups completed the ego depletion task, participants in the positive emotion group allocated significantly higher bonus amounts than those in the neutral emotion group (t (46) =2.06, p <0.05). And the Conclusion: Those findings revealed that high ego depletion reduced prosocial behavior. Additionally, positive emotions alleviated ego depletion and promoted prosocial behavior by activating the medial superior frontal gyrus (SFGmed) and right dorsolateral superior frontal gyrus (SFGdor) negatively.
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