Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality

Prosociality can either be costly (e.g., donating to charity) or costless (e.g. posthumous organ donation). Whereas links between personality and costly prosociality and have been explored, links with costless prosociality and personality are at present unknown. We address this in two studies. Study...

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Main Authors:	Ferguson, Eamonn, Zhao, Kun, O'Carroll, Ronan, Smillie, Luke
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Language:	English
Published:	SAGE 2018
Online Access:	http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49758/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49758/1/Ferguson%20et%20al%20Costless%20and%20Costly%20SPPS%20accepted%20version.pdf

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spelling	nottingham-497582018-07-12T08:00:13Z http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49758/ Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality Ferguson, Eamonn Zhao, Kun O'Carroll, Ronan Smillie, Luke Prosociality can either be costly (e.g., donating to charity) or costless (e.g. posthumous organ donation). Whereas links between personality and costly prosociality and have been explored, links with costless prosociality and personality are at present unknown. We address this in two studies. Study 1 (N = 200) confirms the distinction between costless and costly prosociality based on willingness to engage with health and non-health prosociality. Study 2, using data from 4 samples (student and community; N = 733) shows that across incentivized and hypothetical economic games to assess costless (generosity game; GG) and costly (dictator game; DG) prosociality, that organ donor behavior was linked to greater allocations in the GG and charity/volunteering behavior in the DG. Costless and costly prosocialities are associated with different personality traits (e.g., costly with politeness and compassion, and costless with intellect). Implications for cooperative phenotypes and recruiting organ donors are discussed. SAGE 2018-02-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49758/1/Ferguson%20et%20al%20Costless%20and%20Costly%20SPPS%20accepted%20version.pdf Ferguson, Eamonn and Zhao, Kun and O'Carroll, Ronan and Smillie, Luke (2018) Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality. Social Psychological & Personality Science . ISSN 1948-5514 (In Press)
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description	Prosociality can either be costly (e.g., donating to charity) or costless (e.g. posthumous organ donation). Whereas links between personality and costly prosociality and have been explored, links with costless prosociality and personality are at present unknown. We address this in two studies. Study 1 (N = 200) confirms the distinction between costless and costly prosociality based on willingness to engage with health and non-health prosociality. Study 2, using data from 4 samples (student and community; N = 733) shows that across incentivized and hypothetical economic games to assess costless (generosity game; GG) and costly (dictator game; DG) prosociality, that organ donor behavior was linked to greater allocations in the GG and charity/volunteering behavior in the DG. Costless and costly prosocialities are associated with different personality traits (e.g., costly with politeness and compassion, and costless with intellect). Implications for cooperative phenotypes and recruiting organ donors are discussed.
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author	Ferguson, Eamonn Zhao, Kun O'Carroll, Ronan Smillie, Luke
spellingShingle	Ferguson, Eamonn Zhao, Kun O'Carroll, Ronan Smillie, Luke Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality
author_facet	Ferguson, Eamonn Zhao, Kun O'Carroll, Ronan Smillie, Luke
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title	Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality
title_short	Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality
title_full	Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality
title_fullStr	Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality
title_full_unstemmed	Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality
title_sort	costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality
publisher	SAGE
publishDate	2018
url	http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49758/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49758/1/Ferguson%20et%20al%20Costless%20and%20Costly%20SPPS%20accepted%20version.pdf
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Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality

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