Prosocial priming and bystander effect in an online context

The present study tested the effect of priming the concept of prosociality on the bystander effect in an online environment. Participants were sent an e-mail requesting a plea for help and randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 (Bystander: 0 vs. 14) × 2 (Priming: present vs. absent) desi...

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Autores principales: Scaffidi Abbate, Costanza, Misuraca, Raffaella, Vaccaro, Chiara, Roccella, Michele, Vetri, Luigi, Miceli, Silvana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9413050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36033017
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.945630
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author Scaffidi Abbate, Costanza
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Roccella, Michele
Vetri, Luigi
Miceli, Silvana
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description The present study tested the effect of priming the concept of prosociality on the bystander effect in an online environment. Participants were sent an e-mail requesting a plea for help and randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 (Bystander: 0 vs. 14) × 2 (Priming: present vs. absent) design. The results demonstrated support for the study hypothesis. As expected, the virtual presence of many others significantly reduced e-mail responsiveness except when the request for help is preceded by prosocial priming. Implications of these findings for the literature on the bystander effect and priming are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-94130502022-08-27 Prosocial priming and bystander effect in an online context Scaffidi Abbate, Costanza Misuraca, Raffaella Vaccaro, Chiara Roccella, Michele Vetri, Luigi Miceli, Silvana Front Psychol Psychology The present study tested the effect of priming the concept of prosociality on the bystander effect in an online environment. Participants were sent an e-mail requesting a plea for help and randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 (Bystander: 0 vs. 14) × 2 (Priming: present vs. absent) design. The results demonstrated support for the study hypothesis. As expected, the virtual presence of many others significantly reduced e-mail responsiveness except when the request for help is preceded by prosocial priming. Implications of these findings for the literature on the bystander effect and priming are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9413050/ /pubmed/36033017 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.945630 Text en Copyright © 2022 Scaffidi Abbate, Misuraca, Vaccaro, Roccella, Vetri and Miceli. https://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.
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