TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weiß, Martin
A1  - Hein, Grit
A1  - Hewig, Johannes
T1  - Between joy and sympathy: Smiling and sad recipient faces increase prosocial behavior in the dictator game
T2  - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
N2  - In human interactions, the facial expression of a bargaining partner may contain relevant information that affects prosocial decisions. We were interested in whether facial expressions of the recipient in the dictator game influence dictators´ ehavior. To test this, we conducted an online study (n = 106) based on a modified version of a dictator game. The dictators allocated money between themselves and another person (recipient), who had no possibility to respond to the dictator.
Importantly, before the allocation decision, the dictator was presented with the facial expression of the recipient (angry, disgusted, sad, smiling, or neutral). The results showed that dictators sent more money to recipients with sad or smiling facial expressions and less to recipients with angry or disgusted facial expressions compared with a neutral facial expression. Moreover, based on the sequential analysis of the decision and the interaction partner in the preceding trial, we found that decision-making depends upon previous interactions.
KW  - emotional influence
KW  - dictator game
KW  - facial expression
KW  - social decision-making
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24110
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-241106
VL  - 18
IS  - 11
ER  -