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The effect of prosocial priming in the presence of bystanders.

Costanza Scaffidi AbbateStefano BocaStefano Ruggieri

subject

AdultMalePsychological TestsPriming Prosocial behavior Bystander effectSocial PsychologyHelping behaviorHelping BehaviorDevelopmental psychologyYoung AdultProsocial behaviorBystander effectmedicineHumansApathyFemalemedicine.symptomPsychologySettore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia SocialePriming (psychology)Social psychology

description

This study investigated the influence of priming and bystander apathy on helping behavior. After priming prosociality through a scrambled sentences test, participants encountered a woman who dropped the books she was carrying. Helping behavior in bystander and no-bystander conditions was tested. The results showed that people in a prosocial-prime condition were more likely to help than people in a neutral-prime condition, and that the effect of priming persists even in the presence of bystanders.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2013-09-06The Journal of social psychology
10.1080/00224545.2013.791658https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24003586