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A computational model for the impact of altruism on happiness

2025-06-05

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<p>The pursuit of well-being is fundamental to human experience. Helping others is widely believed to be an important route to happiness, but the relevance of individual social preferences remains unclear. Happiness is also thought to depend on past prediction errors, whether events are better than expected. We conducted two experiments (total N = 235) in which participants took altruistic actions (either giving t...

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Literature Corpus work: a7697b88-4497-5553-8a16-d2b9af471085
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qvtaz_v1

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