Journal article
Uncertainty about the impact of social decisions increases prosocial behavior
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Uncertainty about how our choices will affect others infuses social life. Past research suggests uncertainty has a negative effect on prosocial behaviour1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 by enabling people to adopt self-serving narratives about their actions1,13. We show that uncertainty does not always promote selfishness. We introduce a distinction between two types of uncertainty that have opposite effects on prosocial behaviour. Previous work focused on outcome uncertainty (uncertainty about whe...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1038/s41562-018-0372-x
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Oxford Martin School
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Human Behaviour Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Pages:
- 573-580
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-06-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2397-3374
- Source identifiers:
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856331
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pubs:856331
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uuid:78069469-c965-4d5e-abcb-6818037221fd
- Local pid:
- pubs:856331
- Deposit date:
- 2018-06-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Kappes, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © Kappes, et al 2018. This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Nature Publishing Group at: 10.1038/s41562-018-0372-x
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