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Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions
Social situations require people to make complex decisions, sometimes involving different outcomes for the self and others. Considering the long-lasting interest scholars are showing in the topic of social decisions, the aim of the current article is to add to this research line by looking at person...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7226412/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32326383 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10040077 |
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author | Heilman, Renata M. Kusev, Petko |
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description | Social situations require people to make complex decisions, sometimes involving different outcomes for the self and others. Considering the long-lasting interest scholars are showing in the topic of social decisions, the aim of the current article is to add to this research line by looking at personal values as possible factors associated with a preference for more self-maximizing or cooperative choices. In a general adult sample (N = 63), we used the Social Value Orientation (SVO) slider measure to investigate participants’ tendency towards prosocial or proself outcomes. We also administered a personal values questionnaire, measuring 19 basic values, organized in 4 higher-order values. Building on the theory of basic individual values, we expected self-transcendence to be positively associated with more prosocial orientations. Our main result confirmed that self-transcendence was positively correlated with SVO whereas no other higher-order values were associated with SVO. Our data also revealed that inequality aversion was the primary motivation of prosocials, and this result was unrelated to gender effects or the personal values under investigation. |
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spelling | pubmed-72264122020-05-18 Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions Heilman, Renata M. Kusev, Petko Behav Sci (Basel) Article Social situations require people to make complex decisions, sometimes involving different outcomes for the self and others. Considering the long-lasting interest scholars are showing in the topic of social decisions, the aim of the current article is to add to this research line by looking at personal values as possible factors associated with a preference for more self-maximizing or cooperative choices. In a general adult sample (N = 63), we used the Social Value Orientation (SVO) slider measure to investigate participants’ tendency towards prosocial or proself outcomes. We also administered a personal values questionnaire, measuring 19 basic values, organized in 4 higher-order values. Building on the theory of basic individual values, we expected self-transcendence to be positively associated with more prosocial orientations. Our main result confirmed that self-transcendence was positively correlated with SVO whereas no other higher-order values were associated with SVO. Our data also revealed that inequality aversion was the primary motivation of prosocials, and this result was unrelated to gender effects or the personal values under investigation. MDPI 2020-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7226412/ /pubmed/32326383 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10040077 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Heilman, Renata M. Kusev, Petko Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions |
title | Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions |
title_full | Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions |
title_fullStr | Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions |
title_full_unstemmed | Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions |
title_short | Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions |
title_sort | personal values associated with prosocial decisions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7226412/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32326383 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10040077 |
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