The relation between bystanders' behavioral reactivity to distress and later helping behavior during a violent conflict in virtual reality.

The occurrence of helping behavior is thought to be automatically triggered by reflexive reactions and promoted by intuitive decisions. Here, we studied whether reflexive reactions to an emergency situation are associated with later helping behavior in a different situation, a violent conflict. Firs...

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Main Authors: Ruud Hortensius, Solène Neyret, Mel Slater, Beatrice de Gelder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5908166?pdf=render