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Perceptual Broadening Leads to More Prosociality
A link between perceptual processing styles and (pro)social behavior has gathered supporting empirical evidence to show that people raised or trained in traditions of collectiveness, compassion, and prosocial beliefs are biased to the global level in perceptual processing. In this research, we studi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167552/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30319514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01821 |
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author | Mukherjee, Sumitava Srinivasan, Narayanan Kumar, Neeraj Manjaly, Jaison A. |
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description | A link between perceptual processing styles and (pro)social behavior has gathered supporting empirical evidence to show that people raised or trained in traditions of collectiveness, compassion, and prosocial beliefs are biased to the global level in perceptual processing. In this research, we studied the reciprocal link – whether contextually broadening perceptual scope of attention via global processing could make people more prosocial. We hypothesized that global processing linked previously to an interdependent compassionate self-orientation would make people more prosocial, compared to local processing. Four experiments manipulated perceptual scope through a Global-Local task using hierarchical stimuli. It was found that participants who performed a global processing perceptual task volunteered to donate more money across different donation frames, compared to those who performed a local processing task. While previous research showed prosocial mindsets lead to perceptual broadening, the current results suggest that perceptual broadening also leads to more prosociality, thus establishing a reciprocal link between perceptual broadening (attentional scope), and acting prosocially. It is proposed that perceptual scope of attention is one of the generic cognitive processes that underlie prosocial decisions. Explanations based on scope of attention can potentially be used as a framework that enables researchers to link the effects of different contextual cues on prosocial decisions. |
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spelling | pubmed-61675522018-10-12 Perceptual Broadening Leads to More Prosociality Mukherjee, Sumitava Srinivasan, Narayanan Kumar, Neeraj Manjaly, Jaison A. Front Psychol Psychology A link between perceptual processing styles and (pro)social behavior has gathered supporting empirical evidence to show that people raised or trained in traditions of collectiveness, compassion, and prosocial beliefs are biased to the global level in perceptual processing. In this research, we studied the reciprocal link – whether contextually broadening perceptual scope of attention via global processing could make people more prosocial. We hypothesized that global processing linked previously to an interdependent compassionate self-orientation would make people more prosocial, compared to local processing. Four experiments manipulated perceptual scope through a Global-Local task using hierarchical stimuli. It was found that participants who performed a global processing perceptual task volunteered to donate more money across different donation frames, compared to those who performed a local processing task. While previous research showed prosocial mindsets lead to perceptual broadening, the current results suggest that perceptual broadening also leads to more prosociality, thus establishing a reciprocal link between perceptual broadening (attentional scope), and acting prosocially. It is proposed that perceptual scope of attention is one of the generic cognitive processes that underlie prosocial decisions. Explanations based on scope of attention can potentially be used as a framework that enables researchers to link the effects of different contextual cues on prosocial decisions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6167552/ /pubmed/30319514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01821 Text en Copyright © 2018 Mukherjee, Srinivasan, Kumar and Manjaly. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Mukherjee, Sumitava Srinivasan, Narayanan Kumar, Neeraj Manjaly, Jaison A. Perceptual Broadening Leads to More Prosociality |
title | Perceptual Broadening Leads to More Prosociality |
title_full | Perceptual Broadening Leads to More Prosociality |
title_fullStr | Perceptual Broadening Leads to More Prosociality |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceptual Broadening Leads to More Prosociality |
title_short | Perceptual Broadening Leads to More Prosociality |
title_sort | perceptual broadening leads to more prosociality |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167552/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30319514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01821 |
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