Acute hunger does not always undermine prosociality
dc.contributor.author | Häusser, JA | |
dc.contributor.author | Stahlecker, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Mojzisch, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Leder, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Van Lange, PAM | |
dc.contributor.author | Faber, NS | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-27T10:52:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-10-18 | |
dc.description.abstract | It has been argued that, when they are acutely hungry, people act in self-protective ways by keeping resources to themselves rather than sharing them. In four studies, using experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational designs (total N = 795), we examine the effects of acute hunger on prosociality in a wide variety of non-interdependent tasks (e.g. dictator game) and interdependent tasks (e.g. public goods games). While our procedures successfully increase subjective hunger and decrease blood glucose, we do not find significant effects of hunger on prosociality. This is true for both decisions incentivized with money and with food. Metaanalysis across all tasks reveals a very small effect of hunger on prosociality in noninterdependent tasks (d = .108), and a non-significant effect in interdependent tasks (d = -0.076). In study five (N = 197), we show that, in stark contrast to our empirical findings, people hold strong lay theories that hunger undermines prosociality. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Volkswagen Foundation | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10, article 4733 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41467-019-12579-7 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/38928 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://osf.io/zexd7/?view_only=480593713c904397a033e751a6da7a69 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2019 The Author(s). Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | |
dc.subject | hunger | en_GB |
dc.subject | helping | en_GB |
dc.subject | sharing | en_GB |
dc.subject | cooperation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Prosociality | en_GB |
dc.title | Acute hunger does not always undermine prosociality | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-27T10:52:18Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability: The data that support the findings of this paper are available on the OSF website (https://osf.io/zexd7/?view_only=480593713c904397a033e751a6da7a69). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature Communications | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-09-17 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-09-17 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-09-26T18:44:19Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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