Using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior

Using dictator game, we evaluated participants (N = 80 students) social value orientations and found that prosocial orientation was shared by the majority of the participants. The current research provides also evidence for the holier than thou effect: participants tended to underestimate fellow par...

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Main Author: Loredana Ivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Facultatea de Stiinte Politice, SNSPA 2012-04-01
Series:Sfera Politicii
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Online Access:http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/168/art12-Ivan.php
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spelling doaj-88ff5665ca974d3591c447d8bf372e862020-12-02T06:52:27ZengFacultatea de Stiinte Politice, SNSPASfera Politicii1221-67202012-04-01XX168 (2)100110Using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior Loredana IvanUsing dictator game, we evaluated participants (N = 80 students) social value orientations and found that prosocial orientation was shared by the majority of the participants. The current research provides also evidence for the holier than thou effect: participants tended to underestimate fellow participants’ altruism relative to their own behavior. We underlined the fact that the fairness bias is larger for participants having an individualistic approach and for the estimations of unknown stimuli behavior, in brief exposure situations. We used type of information processing and nonverbal sensitivity to explain participants’ accuracy in estimating stimuli persons’ behavior. The data suggest that subjects who tended to use more their cognitive abilities were significant more accurate in predicting stimuli persons’ social value orientations and they had also higher abilities to decode nonverbal cues.http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/168/art12-Ivan.phpsocial value orientationdictator gamenonverbal sensitivityRational-Experiential Inventory (REI)ways to process information
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Using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior
Sfera Politicii
social value orientation
dictator game
nonverbal sensitivity
Rational-Experiential Inventory (REI)
ways to process information
author_facet Loredana Ivan
author_sort Loredana Ivan
title Using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior
title_short Using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior
title_full Using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior
title_fullStr Using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior
title_full_unstemmed Using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior
title_sort using nonverbal sensitivity and cognitive style to discriminate between self and others’ prosocial behavior
publisher Facultatea de Stiinte Politice, SNSPA
series Sfera Politicii
issn 1221-6720
publishDate 2012-04-01
description Using dictator game, we evaluated participants (N = 80 students) social value orientations and found that prosocial orientation was shared by the majority of the participants. The current research provides also evidence for the holier than thou effect: participants tended to underestimate fellow participants’ altruism relative to their own behavior. We underlined the fact that the fairness bias is larger for participants having an individualistic approach and for the estimations of unknown stimuli behavior, in brief exposure situations. We used type of information processing and nonverbal sensitivity to explain participants’ accuracy in estimating stimuli persons’ behavior. The data suggest that subjects who tended to use more their cognitive abilities were significant more accurate in predicting stimuli persons’ social value orientations and they had also higher abilities to decode nonverbal cues.
topic social value orientation
dictator game
nonverbal sensitivity
Rational-Experiential Inventory (REI)
ways to process information
url http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/168/art12-Ivan.php
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