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Dire times inspire adolescents’ prosocial giving behavior to those in need

2025-01-14

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<p>In an eight-wave longitudinal online experiment, we test pre-registered hypotheses on adolescents’ giving behavior during and after the COVID-19 pandemic employing a Pandemic Dictator Game (PDG). Participants (n = 898) showed higher generosity towards pandemic- related targets (medical doctors, individuals with a poor immune system and COVID-19 patients) than to a friend and an unknown peer, which was more mark...

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Literature Corpus work: be691735-e12d-56dc-ab45-1353d501f428
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/yz3a8

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