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Prosocial behaviour is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains
- Abstract:
- Prosocial behaviours – actions that benefit others – fundamentally shape our interpersonal interactions. Psychiatric disorders have been suggested to be related to prosocial disturbances, which may underlie many of their social impairments. However, broader affective traits, present in different degrees in both psychiatric and healthy populations, have also been linked to variability in prosociality. Therefore, it is unclear to what extent prosocial variability is explained by specific psychiatric disorders relative to broad affective traits. Using a computational, transdiagnostic approach in two online studies, we found that participants who reported being more affectively reactive across a broad cluster of traits manifested greater frequencies of prosocial actions in two different contexts: they reported being more averse to harming others for profit, and they were more willing to exert effort to benefit others. These findings help illuminate the profile of prosociality across psychiatric conditions as well as the architecture of prosocial behaviour in healthy individuals.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1037/emo0000813
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- Publisher:
- American Psychological Association
- Journal:
- Emotion More from this journal
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 820–835
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-22
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1931-1516
- ISSN:
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1528-3542
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English
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1100984
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pubs:1100984
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2020-04-22
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- Cobntreras-Huerta et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 The Author(s). This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s). Author(s) grant(s) the American Psychological Association the exclusive right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
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