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Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors
INTRODUCTION: Prior work in the memory domain has shown that certain social information is especially well‐remembered such as information for social targets who cheat. Less work, however, has investigated the extent people remember information for social targets who engage in prosocial behaviors (e....
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10338796/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37287376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3096 |
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author | Urban Levy, Pauline Sklenar, Allison M. Frankenstein, Andrea N. Leshikar, Eric D. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Prior work in the memory domain has shown that certain social information is especially well‐remembered such as information for social targets who cheat. Less work, however, has investigated the extent people remember information for social targets who engage in prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping) in social interactions. The current investigation examines whether there is a memory advantage for social targets who perform prosocial behaviors. METHODS: Across two experiments, participants formed impressions of social targets engaging in prosocial and non‐prosocial behaviors. Participants were then tested on their memory for the impression as well as the specific behavior each social target performed. RESULTS: Results of Experiment 1 showed that memory for impressions was better for social targets engaging in prosocial compared to non‐prosocial behaviors. Results of Experiment 2 showed marginally better behavior memory for targets performing prosocial compared to non‐prosocial behaviors. CONCLUSION: Overall, results of both experiments provide converging evidence of a prosocial advantage in memory, which suggests that people are attuned to prosocial behaviors exhibited by others in the social domain. |
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spelling | pubmed-103387962023-07-14 Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors Urban Levy, Pauline Sklenar, Allison M. Frankenstein, Andrea N. Leshikar, Eric D. Brain Behav Original Articles INTRODUCTION: Prior work in the memory domain has shown that certain social information is especially well‐remembered such as information for social targets who cheat. Less work, however, has investigated the extent people remember information for social targets who engage in prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping) in social interactions. The current investigation examines whether there is a memory advantage for social targets who perform prosocial behaviors. METHODS: Across two experiments, participants formed impressions of social targets engaging in prosocial and non‐prosocial behaviors. Participants were then tested on their memory for the impression as well as the specific behavior each social target performed. RESULTS: Results of Experiment 1 showed that memory for impressions was better for social targets engaging in prosocial compared to non‐prosocial behaviors. Results of Experiment 2 showed marginally better behavior memory for targets performing prosocial compared to non‐prosocial behaviors. CONCLUSION: Overall, results of both experiments provide converging evidence of a prosocial advantage in memory, which suggests that people are attuned to prosocial behaviors exhibited by others in the social domain. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10338796/ /pubmed/37287376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3096 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Brain and Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Urban Levy, Pauline Sklenar, Allison M. Frankenstein, Andrea N. Leshikar, Eric D. Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors |
title | Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors |
title_full | Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors |
title_fullStr | Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors |
title_full_unstemmed | Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors |
title_short | Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors |
title_sort | evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10338796/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37287376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3096 |
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