Relating trait self-control and forgiveness within prosocials and proselfs: compensatory versus synergistic models.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Relating Trait Self-Control and Forgiveness Within Prosocials and Proselfs: Compensatory Versus Synergistic Models

Injustice for all or just for me? Social value orientation predicts responses to own versus other's procedures.

In two experiments, the authors investigated how differences in social value orientation predict evaluations of procedures that were accorded to self and others. Proselfs versus prosocials were either granted or denied an opportunity to voice an opinion in a decision-making process and witnessed how someone else was either granted or denied such an opportunity. Consistent with the hypothesis, p...

Response time in economic games reflects different types of decision conflict for prosocial and proself individuals.

Behavioral and neuroscientific studies explore two pathways through which internalized social norms promote prosocial behavior. One pathway involves internal control of impulsive selfishness, and the other involves emotion-based prosocial preferences that are translated into behavior when they evade cognitive control for pursuing self-interest. We measured 443 participants' overall prosocial be...

Representation of economic preferences in the structure and function of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex

Social value orientations (SVOs) are economic preferences for the distribution of resources - prosocial individuals are more cooperative and egalitarian than are proselfs. Despite the social and economic implications of SVOs, no systematic studies have examined their neural correlates. We investigated the amygdala and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) structures and functions in prosocials...

Moderating Effects of Social Value Orientation on the Effect of Social Influence in Prosocial Decisions

Prosocial behaviors are susceptible to individuals' preferences regarding payoffs and social context. In the present study, we combined individual differences with social influence and attempted to discover the effect of social value orientation (SVO) and social influence on prosocial behavior in a trust game and a dictator game. Prosocial behavior in the trust game could be motivated by strate...