The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121833
Result on the web
<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333188745" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333188745</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.1940254" target="_blank" >10.1080/2153599X.2021.1940254</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context
Original language description
People in a state of awe have been found to perceive their needs as small while also expressing intentions to act in a prosocial way, benefitting others at personal cost. However, these findings come largely out of the USA and have focused on intended rather than real prosocial behavior. We propose a contextual model of the awe-prosociality relationship predicated on the constructed theory of emotion, according to which emotion categories and cost–benefit analyses of possible subsequent actions differ across cultures and in line with enduring individual differences. To test the model, we conducted a laboratory study (N = 143) examining whether costly volunteering behavior is higher amid awe in the Czech Republic, a country where social psychological studies have often produced different results compared to the USA. Awe-inspiring and neutral primes were validated in pilot studies (N = 229). As is possible under the contextual model, awe-inspiring primes elicited not more, but less, prosocial behavior, with the relationship being moderated by various facets of Openness to Experience. Individuals higher in the Feelings facet of Openness were also found to be more awe-prone. A call is made for a cross-cultural investigation of the awe-behavior relationship that accounts for complex phylogenetic relationships between cultures.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Religion Brain & Behavior
ISSN
2153-599X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
294-311
UT code for WoS article
000665658100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85108449257