Between joy and sympathy: Smiling and sad recipient faces increase prosocial behavior in the dictator game
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- 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 wasIn 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.…
Author: | Martin WeißORCiD, Grit HeinORCiD, Johannes HewigORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-241106 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät / Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie |
Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie | |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 11 |
Article Number: | 6172 |
Source: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2021) 18(11):6172. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18116172 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116172 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 152 Sinneswahrnehmung, Bewegung, Emotionen, Triebe |
Tag: | dictator game; emotional influence; facial expression; social decision-making |
Release Date: | 2021/09/10 |
EU-Project number / Contract (GA) number: | 823881 |
OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds / Förderzeitraum 2021 | |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |