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Wisdom to give: Perspectival metacognition and the calibration of prosocial behavior across cultures
2026-01-06
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<p>Humans engage in costly prosocial behavior with unrelated others at scales that short-term self-interest cannot explain. We propose that this capacity relies on perspectival metacognition (PMC)—a reflective reasoning style characterized by intellectual humility, open-mindedness, and self-transcendence beyond immediate concerns. In a preregistered cross-national study (N=13,500; nine countries), participants ref...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0e499e1e-7eb6-57e7-ba3b-cd3596a3945c
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/89u75_v2