Evidence for a memory advantage for prosocial behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Prior work in the memory domain has shown that certain social information is especially well-remembered such as information for social targets who cheat. Less work, however, has investigated the extent people remember information for social targets who engage in prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping) in social interactions. The current investigation examines whether there is a memory advantage for social targets who perform prosocial behaviors.

Methods

Across two experiments, participants formed impressions of social targets engaging in prosocial and non-prosocial behaviors. Participants were then tested on their memory for the impression as well as the specific behavior each social target performed.

Results

Results of Experiment 1 showed that memory for imp

SUBMITTER: Urban Levy P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10338796 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature