Dual-processing altruism
- Altruism refers to an other-benefiting behavior that is costly but bears no direct profit to oneself. At least three different forms can be distinguished: help giving, altruistic punishment, and moral courage. We investigated the differential impact of two thinking modes, intuitive (System 1) and rational (System 2), on these three altruistic behaviors. Situational (state-related) thinking style was manipulated via experimental instructions and generally preferred thinking style (trait-related) was assessed via questionnaires. We found that of the subjectively preferred thinking styles (trait), faith in intuition (System 1) promoted sharing and altruistic punishment, whereas need for cognition (System 2) promoted volunteering in a situation that required moral courage. By contrast, we did not find a significant effect of situational thinking style (state) on any of the altruistic behaviors, although manipulation checks were positive. Results elucidate the affective-motivational underpinnings of different types of altruistic behaviors.
| Author: | Suna KinnunenGND, Sabine WindmannORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-298567 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00193 |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23616778 |
| Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in psychology |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
| Place of publication: | Lausanne |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2013 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2013/04/18 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/04/29 |
| Tag: | altruistic punishment; donation; dual-processing; intuition; moral courage; volunteering |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | Article 193 |
| Page Number: | 8 |
| Note: | Copyright: © 2013 Kinnunen and Windmann. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 339057793 |
| Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
