Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors

Liu, Ying; Yan, Qi; Shen, Xin; Zhang, Chengmian

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.803184

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“…Our study extends previous findings demonstrating the importance of individual differences in empathy (31), mentalising (33), and Social Value Orientation (34) in predicting prosocial responses under acute stress. However, it is not yet clear when acute stress accentuates or supresses existing prosocial tendencies.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Similarly, Speer et al (32) showed that acute stress can accentuate existing differences in dishonesty (cf. 33,34). Thus, our study also aimed to test whether individual differences in participants' trait prosocial tendencies, as measured by Social Value Orientation (SVO; 29), modulated the impact of acute stress on effortful prosocial behaviour.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

Forbes¹,

Aydogan²,

Braunstein³

et al. 2022

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Acute stress can change our cognition and emotions, but what specific consequences this has for prosocial behaviour is unclear. Previous studies have mainly investigated prosociality with financial transfers in economic games and produced conflicting results. We examined how acute stress changes our willingness to exert effort for others, which is a core feature of many types of real-life prosocial behaviour. Participants – half of whom were put under acute stress – made decisions whether to exert physical effort to gain money for themselves or another person. With this design, we could independently assess the effects of acute stress on prosocial, compared to self-benefitting, effortful behaviour. Compared to controls, stressed participants chose to exert effort more often for self- than for other-benefitting rewards. This was particularly pronounced for more selfish participants. Neuroimaging combined with computational modelling revealed a putative neural mechanism underlying these effects: more stressed participants showed increased activation to subjective value in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and anterior insula when they themselves could benefit from their exerted effort relative to when someone else could. Activation differences in the dACC mediated the effect of perceived stress on effortful prosocial behaviour. Using effort-based paradigms to better approximate real-life prosocial behaviour and incorporating trait differences in prosocial tendencies could be key to understanding how acute stress affects prosociality. Considering the importance of such behaviours for our individual relationships and social cohesion, this highlights the need to tackle the sources of stress and help people better cope with stress when it occurs.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

Forbes¹,

Aydogan²,

Braunstein³

et al. 2022

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“…Such use of deception is a common practice of previous studies (Blain et al, 2022; FeldmanHall et al, 2014; Leliveld et al, 2012; McAuliffe et al, 2015; Qu et al, 2018; Stallen et al, 2018; J. Yang et al, 2022; Ying et al, 2022). Since all players in the task were anonymous, no reputation concern was involved in this task.…”

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confidence: 99%

The “motive cocktail” in altruistic behaviors

Wu,

Ren,

Liu

et al. 2023

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Prosocial motives such as social equality and efficiency are key to altruistic behaviors. However, predicting the range of altruistic behaviors in varying contexts and among different individuals proves challenging if we limit ourselves to one or two motives, as most previous studies have done. Here we demonstrate the numerous, interdependent motives in altruistic behaviors and the possibility to disentangle them through behavioral experimental data and computational modeling. In one laboratory experiment (N=157) and one pre-registered online replication (N=1258) across 100 different situations, we found that both third-party punishment and helping behaviors aligned best with a model of seven socioeconomic motives, referred to as a “motive cocktail”, including two compound motives. For instance, the “inequality inattention” motives imply that individuals, when confronted with costly interventions, behave as if the inequality between others barely exists. The motive cocktail model also provides a unified explanation for a range of phenomena in the literature.

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“…Social value orientation refers to a personality trait that reflects stable individual differences. Exist when people weigh their own outcomes in social dilemmas and compare them to those of others [9]. The study by Ying, and colleagues studies the moderating role of gender and social value orientation on the relationship between acute stress and individuals' purely pro-social behaviour (i.e., purely pro-sociality and pro-social third-party punishment) Participants being randomly assigned to stress condition and control condition.…”

Section: Gender Differences Stress and Prosocial Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The result shows that acute psychological stress affects the frequency and amount of punishment in purely pro-social punishment and pro-social thirdparty punishment, i.e., donation and third-party punishment tasks in the dictator game. In addition, these effects varied according to participants' gender and social value orientations [9].…”

Section: Gender Differences Stress and Prosocial Behaviourmentioning

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The Impact of Stress on Prosocial Behaviour and Relevant Factors

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Stress is a negative and overwhelming psychological feeling that always comes into a human’s mind and bothers one’s life. Prosocial behaviour is a voluntary act/behaviour that is intended to benefit others in society as a whole. According to recent studies, stress, especially acute stress, has shown a significant relationship with prosocial behaviour. This paper is looking deeper at their relationship and analyzing broader about relevant factors. After compiling the relative studies and investigations on this topic, gathering information regarding stress, acute stress and their relationship with prosocial behaviour, studies do suggest the correlation between prosocial behaviour with acute stress. Plus, this paper examined relevant factors that may have different effects on the results, such as kin relationship, empathy, and gender difference. The result indicates the importance of kin relationships, whereas people always care for a person they know more than strangers. It also emphasized how different levels of empathy affect people’s prosocial behaviour and moreover, shows a great gender difference in prosocial behaviour under stress. This review can provide some suggestions to develop intervention programs that can facilitate genuine prosocial behaviours in individuals at risk.

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Social Value Orientation Moderated the Effect of Acute Stress on Individuals’ Prosocial Behaviors

Cited by 9 publications

References 61 publications

Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

The “motive cocktail” in altruistic behaviors

The Impact of Stress on Prosocial Behaviour and Relevant Factors

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