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The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities
Time pressure is a powerful experimental manipulation frequently used to arbitrate between competing dual-process models of prosocial decision-making, which typically assume that automatic responses yield to deliberation over time. However, the use of time pressure has led to conflicting conclusions...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9630724/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35994687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09567976221094782 |
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description | Time pressure is a powerful experimental manipulation frequently used to arbitrate between competing dual-process models of prosocial decision-making, which typically assume that automatic responses yield to deliberation over time. However, the use of time pressure has led to conflicting conclusions about the psychological dynamics of prosociality. Here, we proposed that flexible, context-sensitive information search, rather than automatic responses, underlies these divergent effects of time pressure on prosociality. We demonstrated in two preregistered studies (N = 304 adults from the United States and Canada; Prolific Academic) that different prosocial contexts (i.e., pure altruism vs. cooperation) have distinct effects on information search, driving people to prioritize information differently, particularly under time pressure. Furthermore, these information priorities subsequently influence prosocial choices, accounting for the different effects of time pressure in altruistic and cooperative contexts. These findings help explain existing inconsistencies in the field by emphasizing the role of dynamic context-sensitive information search during social decision-making, particularly under time pressure. |
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spelling | pubmed-96307242023-08-22 The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities Teoh, Yi Yang Hutcherson, Cendri A. Psychol Sci General Articles Time pressure is a powerful experimental manipulation frequently used to arbitrate between competing dual-process models of prosocial decision-making, which typically assume that automatic responses yield to deliberation over time. However, the use of time pressure has led to conflicting conclusions about the psychological dynamics of prosociality. Here, we proposed that flexible, context-sensitive information search, rather than automatic responses, underlies these divergent effects of time pressure on prosociality. We demonstrated in two preregistered studies (N = 304 adults from the United States and Canada; Prolific Academic) that different prosocial contexts (i.e., pure altruism vs. cooperation) have distinct effects on information search, driving people to prioritize information differently, particularly under time pressure. Furthermore, these information priorities subsequently influence prosocial choices, accounting for the different effects of time pressure in altruistic and cooperative contexts. These findings help explain existing inconsistencies in the field by emphasizing the role of dynamic context-sensitive information search during social decision-making, particularly under time pressure. SAGE Publications 2022-08-22 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9630724/ /pubmed/35994687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09567976221094782 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | General Articles Teoh, Yi Yang Hutcherson, Cendri A. The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities |
title | The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect
Context-Sensitive Information Priorities |
title_full | The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect
Context-Sensitive Information Priorities |
title_fullStr | The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect
Context-Sensitive Information Priorities |
title_full_unstemmed | The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect
Context-Sensitive Information Priorities |
title_short | The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect
Context-Sensitive Information Priorities |
title_sort | games we play: prosocial choices under time pressure reflect
context-sensitive information priorities |
topic | General Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9630724/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35994687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09567976221094782 |
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