The relations between early-life stress and risk, time, and prosocial preferences in adulthood: A meta-analytic review

Wu, Junhui; Guo, Zhen; Gao, Xinyun; Kou, Yu

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.09.001

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“…Childhood environmental adversity was not associated with adult cooperation in our models, which is at odds with part of the experimental literature (Lettinga et al, 2020;McCullough et al, 2013;Wu et al, 2020). Two possible, albeit not mutually exclusive, explanations can be put forward: 1) there is no effect between childhood environmental adversity and cooperation or 2) economic games are a poor predictor of cooperative behaviour.…”

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“…On the other hand, when cooperation is measured using behavioural methods in the lab, including economic games, the results are mixed: several studies find a link between adverse environments and decreased cooperation (Korndörfer et al, 2015;McCullough et al, 2013;Nettle et al, 2011;Safra et al, 2016;Schmukle et al, 2019), but other studies find a link in the opposite direction, i.e., between adverse environments and increased cooperation (Amir et al, 2018), or no effect at all (Stamos et al, 2020, who failed to replicate Piff et al (2010)'s initial effect; Wu et al, 2017). In a recent meta-analysis, no overall effect was found (Wu et al, 2020).…”

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“…On the one hand, when cooperation is measured via self-reported questionnaires or in field experiments, the pattern of results is rather consistent and suggestive of an association between adverse environments and decreased cooperation. In particular, a recent metaanalysis showed that early-life stress is associated with less prosocial behaviour in adulthood when it is measured via self-reports (Wu et al, 2020). Furthermore, Korndörfer et al (2015) and Schmukle et al (2019) found a positive correlation between social class and prosociality (e.g., more charitable, trusting and helpful) using questionnaire data from large and representative international samples (average N over 9 studies = 20.243).…”

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“…One possible explanation for such variability is that environmental adversity has a negative impact on cooperation. People exposed to adverse environments may indeed restrict their investments, including their social investments, in what may be seen as a contextually appropriate response to adversity (Lettinga et al, 2020;McCullough et al, 2013;Wu et al, 2020).…”

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“…At the proximal level, researchers have also aimed to put forward psychological mechanisms accounting for the constellation of behaviours that is associated with deprivation in humans (Pepper & Nettle, 2017). One possible explanation is that adverse environments are associated with mechanisms biasing individuals towards more immediate rewards and a shorter time horizon (Bulley & Pepper, 2017;Griskevicius et al, 2011;Simpson et al, 2012;Wu et al, 2020). Such a psychological switch would have a wide impact on a range of behaviours relying on delay gratification, including many social behaviours.…”

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Cooperation is a universal phenomenon, it is present in all human cultures from huntergatherers to industrialized societies, and it constitutes a fundamental aspect of social relationships. There is, however, variability in the amount of resources people invest in cooperative activities. Recent findings indicate that this variability may be partly explained as a contextually appropriate response to environmental conditions. Specifically, adverse environments seem to be associated with less cooperation and recent findings suggest that this effect is partly mediated by differences in individuals' life-history strategy. In this paper, we set out to replicate and extend these findings by measuring actual cooperative behaviour in three economic games-a Dictator game, a Trust game and a Public Goods game-on a nationally representative sample of 612 people. Although we found that the cooperation and life-history strategy latent variables were adequately captured by the models, the hypothesized relationship between childhood environmental adversity and adult cooperation and the mediation effect by life-history strategy were not found.

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Different adverse childhood experiences and adolescents' altruism: The mediating role of life history strategy

Gao,

Liu,

Wang

2023

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionThe present study sought to investigate whether the relationship between childhood trauma, childhood socioeconomic (SES), and adolescents' altruism were mediated by their life history strategies and different adverse childhood experiences may function diversely on altruism, with two waves of data collected 6 months apart in a longitudinal design among Chinese adolescents.MethodsA total of 658 adolescents (Mage = 13.51, SD = 0.73 at T1) were recruited and completed the online survey; their life history strategies were measured by the Mini‐K, the Delayed of Gratification Questionnaire (DOG), and the Chinese version of the Adolescent Risk‐Taking Questionnaire (ARQ‐RB) together, and their altruism was collected again after six months.ResultsAfter controlling for gender and their altruism at T1, the results showed that childhood trauma (i.e., emotional maltreatment, physical maltreatment), as well as low SES and fast life history strategy, were significantly negatively correlated with adolescents' altruism at T2. Importantly, life history strategy at T1 mediated the relationship between T1 emotional maltreatment, T1 low SES, and adolescents' altruism at T2. However, the effect of physical maltreatment on altruism was not mediated by life history strategy.ConclusionsThis study indicated that emotional maltreatment and low SES can affect adolescents' altruism by influencing the formation of adolescents' life history strategies. The findings revealed the different influences of adverse childhood experiences on adolescents' altruism, which supplied new empirical evidence for the life history theory and provided certain reference values for cultivating adolescents' altruism.

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The impact of socioeconomic status on preferences for sustainable luxury brands

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As consumers become more aware of and concerned about the environmental impact of their consumption choices, an increasing number of luxury brands are now engaging in sustainability practices. This study examines factors influencing the effectiveness of embedding sustainability in luxury brands. Specifically, the research focus is the effect of childhood socioeconomic status on moderating consumer preferences for sustainable (vs. regular, nonsustainable) luxury brands. Four experimental studies using different product categories and luxury brands show that preferences for sustainable (vs. regular, nonsustainable) luxury brands are stronger among consumers with relatively low (vs. high) childhood socioeconomic status (Studies 1–4). Notably, these preference patterns are driven by differences in the perceived importance of cooperation in the community among consumers with low versus high childhood socioeconomic status (Study 3). However, these divergent patterns are attenuated when consumption involves the nonluxury brand category (Study 2), and when consumers experience a high‐threat environment (e.g., the COVID‐19 pandemic; Study 4). As such, the findings of this study contribute to the literature by shedding light on the conditions under which consumers show preferences for sustainable (vs. regular, nonsustainable) luxury brands, establishing a theoretically grounded mediator (importance of cooperation in the community) and moderator (perceived environmental threat).

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The relations between early-life stress and risk, time, and prosocial preferences in adulthood: A meta-analytic review

Cited by 41 publications

References 153 publications

Childhood environmental adversity is not linked to lower levels of cooperative behaviour in economic games

Childhood environmental adversity is not linked to lower levels of cooperative behaviour in economic games

Different adverse childhood experiences and adolescents' altruism: The mediating role of life history strategy

The impact of socioeconomic status on preferences for sustainable luxury brands

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