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behavecolpapers.bsky.social
The co-occurrence of ingroup and outgroup prosociality across 121 societies @PNAS.org
The co-occurrence of ingroup and outgroup prosociality across 121 societies
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 3, January 2026. SignificanceA common premise in the social and behavioral sciences is that ingroup love goes together with outgroup hate. To test this premise, we studied whether ingroup prosociality goes together with less or more outgroup prosociality. Across six ...
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January 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
polstudies.bsky.social
Does social trust shape immigration policy views? @fqinya.bsky.social examines Swedish twin data, arguing trust, rather than prosociality, drives more inclusive attitudes toward immigrants. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/cH3vviF

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #ImmigrationPolitics #ECRs
January 28, 2026 at 9:42 PM
bxjaeger.bsky.social
Large, cross-cultural study (n > 6k, 25 nations) on international prosociality finds that
- ingroup favoritism is widespread
- more similarities between two nations = more prosociality
- people from rich nations give more to people from poor nations

doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
January 28, 2026 at 1:38 PM
simoncolumbus.bsky.social
First Cooperation Colloquium of the year:

Caroline Graf (University of Zürich):
Boosting prosocial behavior through incentives and conditional giving: Experimental evidence from 42 societies

Friday, January 30 | 15:00 UCT+1 Vienna / 9:00 ET NYC

Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
Abtract: Prosocial behavior is key to addressing global collective-action challenges. Two prominent tools to promote prosociality are incentives and the use of conditional preferences, yet existing evidence is mixed and largely based on WEIRD populations. We study how incentives and conditionality shape prosocial behavior across diverse cultural contexts, and how cultural characteristics moderate these effects. 15,600 participants from 42 countries completed an online experiment in which prosociality was measured as the donation of earned bonus points to international charities (e.g., UNICEF). In the incentive condition, donors received additional points worth half of the donated amount. In the conditionality treatment, participants could condition their donation on the share of other donors in their country. Preregistered analyses show that incentives increase prosocial behavior overall, but that their effectiveness varies across societies. Incentive effects are stronger in societies where the reputational costs of benefiting personally from prosocial acts are lower, that is, where incentivized donors are perceived as relatively more likable. Conditional giving also increases prosocial behavior, yet the effects are larger in societies characterized by a higher prevalence of conditional preferences and stronger generalized fairness concerns. Together, these findings highlight that the effectiveness of behavioral interventions depends systematically on cultural context, underscoring the importance of moving beyond WEIRD samples not only for advancing theory, but also for culturally tailored policy design.
January 27, 2026 at 11:06 AM
cubarhodes.bsky.social
It's hard to find balance between knowing it's true that Hobbes was full of shit and knowing that people still behave as if he wasn't. That prosociality can be both natural and suppressed. That People™ can be mostly good and that people can deliberately fail to realize their goodness
January 26, 2026 at 2:59 PM
bxjaeger.bsky.social
Some people consistently restrict their prosociality to a narrow group of individuals, whereas others extend it to a wider range of groups.

Restricted prosociality was most strongly correlated with traits such as Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy.

doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
January 26, 2026 at 2:07 PM
eerjournal.bsky.social
Environmental Education Research, Volume 32, Issue 1​, ​January 2026 is now available online - www.tandfonline.com/toc/ceer20/3...

#SDG4 #nature #sustainability #care #empathy #action #prosociality #environmentaleducation #educationforsustainabledevelopment #curriculum #futures #hope
Environmental Education Research
Volume 32, Issue 1 of Environmental Education Research
www.tandfonline.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:40 PM
monkprayogshala.bsky.social
🔔 #PublicationAlert
Arathy Puthillam, Sarah Rezaei, Nikita Mehta, Nishtha Lamba, and Hansika Kapoor published a paper titled “Helpful or not? Inaccurate appraisals of prosociality in the Dark Triad” in Current Psychology.

📄 Read the full publication here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 24, 2026 at 10:31 AM
onedayinjune.bsky.social
This is a good thing, because prosociality nearly always wins out over antisociality
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
aelkus.bsky.social
they are triggered by images of normal prosociality
January 22, 2026 at 7:29 PM
busillis.bsky.social
Right now people in Minnesota are fully into emergency-mode prosociality, and putting mutual aid and community protection over anything else at all. That's why we're seeing so much discipline and focus.
golikehellmachine.com GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9d
kidnapping a 5 year old to bait his father and then shipping them thousands of miles away should put you in prison, yes, but it should also cause every friend and family member you have ever had to permanently reject you in disgrace, and if they don’t, they share your shame
January 22, 2026 at 2:09 PM
danielafloerch.bsky.social
📄 New paper in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization!
I propose a model of prosocial behavior combining moral balancing, self-signaling, and motivated reasoning. It explains why people switch between selfish and prosocial acts—and why voluntary prosociality is hard to sustain without policy.
January 19, 2026 at 10:19 AM
thereductio.bsky.social
The charitable interpretation is that he said it to incentivize prosociality; like when you tell a shit-streaked toddler they did a good job wiping. Not because they did, but because it will encourage them to wipe better. This relies on the assumption that cops are as quick to learn as toddlers tho.
January 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
antisanitygirl.bsky.social
prosociality does not equal compassion as well.
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 AM
wolvendamien.bsky.social
"Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust," a look at the shifting sociocultural thoughts and feelings around the current era of "AI," and, again, what we can try to do about it.
afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
cgsunit.bsky.social
9. @wolvendamien.bsky.social talk “On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other AI” www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpM... and blog post “Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust” afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422
On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other AI. Dr. Williams.
YouTube video by Sonoma State Philosophy
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
strangelove-ai.com
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=6422
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
naraoia.bsky.social
Morrigan is gonna need some training in prosociality

(Yes, I'm only able to play one kind of character 🤣)

#MammalPlaysDragonAge
December 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
leightjessica.bsky.social
Another paper joint w/@MattSutter_MPI @CamilleTerrier1
uses data from incentivized experiments w/more than 3,000 French high-school students to document high levels of homophily in prosociality, risk aversion + cooperation
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December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
apsa.bsky.social
Fickle Prosociality: How Violence against LGBTQ+ People Motivates Prosocial Mass Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ Group Members

Fickle Prosociality: How Violence against LGBTQ+ People Motivates Prosocial Mass Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ Group Members By Marcel F. Roman, Harvard University and Jack Thompson,…
Fickle Prosociality: How Violence against LGBTQ+ People Motivates Prosocial Mass Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ Group Members
Fickle Prosociality: How Violence against LGBTQ+ People Motivates Prosocial Mass Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ Group Members By Marcel F. Roman, Harvard University and Jack Thompson, University of Leeds We present a Fickle Prosocial Violence Response Model to explain how indirect exposure to civilian-perpetrated violence against marginalized minority groups motivates prosocial attitudes toward victimized groups. Although the mass public may not sympathize with marginalized groups, they may adopt prosocial attitudes toward marginalized groups subject to civilian-perpetrated violence if the violence is salient and perceptibly illegitimate.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
I am quite liking the "you can't chemistry your way to moral goodness"
Subsequent studies and reviews gainsay the rosy view that oxytocin promotes prosociality, pure and simple. Rather than warranting the conclusion that we should not rely on oxytocin alone (Persson and Savulescu 2012, 120), this growing picture suggests that we should not do so at all. Having sifted through alleged findings of greater prosociality, Bartz et al. conclude that “almost half of the studies/ outcomes reported in the prosociality domain found no significant main effect of oxytocin. . . . Moreover, situational or individual difference factors moderated 60% of the outcomes reported” (2011, 304). Further, a number of studies found “antisocial . . . effects, such as increasing feelings of envy, mistrust . . . [and] out- group derogation” (304). Since the review of Bartz et al. in 2011, the amount of research on oxytocin and antisocial behavior has increased (Smith et al. 2017). Per Smith et al.’s literature review, more recent work (e.g., Ne’eman et al. 2016) “highlights our growing understanding of the importance of oxytocin in mediating a range of antisocial behaviors” (2017, 621); in sum, their review and pilot data underscore “the potential for oxytocin to promote both prosocial and antisocial behaviors” (625). What’s more, such f indings, though brought to the fore only recently, have existed “from the early days of research on OT” (Beery 2015, 179).7 Among studies of oxytocin that have documented antisociality, Shamay- Tsoory et al. (2009) provide a telling illustration. They hypothesized that if oxytocin “is involved only in prosocial positive emotions, then the [exogenous] administration of OXT would diminish the levels of envy and gloating. By contrast, if OXT is generally involved in modulating social emotions, then the administration of OXT would be expected to increase the ratings of envy and gloating” (868). Shamay- Tsoory et al. contextualized their finding, that oxytocin “increases reported levels of envy and also has a moderate effect on gloatin… Oxytocin strengthens prosocial and antisocial conduct, not only interpersonally, but also on the level of groups. De Dreu et al. found a heightened occupation with the welfare of one’s own group, fostered indirectly by “aggression against the out- group” (2010, 1408– 1409). They tested the hypothesis that ethnocentrism, defined as “the tendency to view one’s own group as centrally important and as superior to other groups,” is both “a key mechanism facilitating . . . in- group cooperation” and what oxytocin promotes (2011, 1262). Per their results, oxytocin fosters “intergroup bias because it motivates in- group favoritism and, in some cases, out- group derogation” (1264). As such findings suggest, what has often been seen as oxytocin’s univocal boosting of prosociality is actually a double- edged phenomenon. On De Dreu et al.’s formulation, “Through its influence on in- group favoritism, oxytocin contributes to the development of intergroup bias and preferential treatment of in- group over out- group members. Because such unfair treatment triggers negative emotions, violent protest, and aggression among disfavored and excluded individuals, by stimulating in- group favoritism, brain oxytocin may trigger a chain reaction toward intense between- group conflict” (2011, 1265). They therefore reject the sensationalist claim that oxytocin is “a ‘cuddle chemical’ or ‘love drug.’ . . . Rather than making humans prosocial, oxytocin functions to strengthen an . . . evolved and rather functional tendency to discriminate between in- group and out- group as well as to give members of one’s own group preferential treatment. Such ethnocentrism has adaptive value to individuals and their groups but, unfortunately, also paves the way for intergroup bias, conflict, and violence” (1265). Persson and Savulescu need us to surpass “parochial altruism” (2012, 83): optimally, we would view everyone, the world over, in the same altruistic light (122– 23). Though they cite De Dreu et al.’s (…
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
wolvendamien.bsky.social
Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI."

Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
nplusodin.bsky.social
Шимпанзе проявили такую же чувствительность к просоциальности, как и люди, и при просмотре видеороликов скорее выбирали того актера, который действовал просоциально по отношению к другому

https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/12/01/chimp-perception-of-prosociality

#главноезанеделю
Шимпанзе и люди одинаково отнеслись к просоциальности
N + 1 — главное издание о науке, технике и технологиях
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December 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM