Intuition, reflection, and prosociality: Evidence from a field experiment

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 2; p. e0262476
• Main Authors: Grehl, Sascha, Tutić, Andreas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 25.02.2022; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Altruism; Attitudes; Biology and Life Sciences; Bivariate analysis; Cognition - physiology; Consciousness; Decision Making; Electronic mail systems; Experiments; Female; Helping behavior; Heuristic; Humans; Hypotheses; Intuition; Intuition - physiology; Laboratories; Male; Norms; Physical Sciences; Psychological research; Reflection (Philosophy); Research and Analysis Methods; Social aspects; Social Behavior; Social Sciences; Surveys and Questionnaires; Young Adult; Germany

Are humans instinctively good or is it only our capacity for reflection that enables us to restrain our selfish traits and behave prosocially? Against the background of dual-process theory, the question of whether people tend to behave prosocially on intuitive grounds has been debated controversiall...