Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
 2010
DOI: 10.1037/a0020092
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Having less, giving more: The influence of social class on prosocial behavior.

Paul K. Piff
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Michael W. Kraus
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Stéphane Côté
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et al.

Abstract: Lower social class (or socioeconomic status) is associated with fewer resources, greater exposure to threat, and a reduced sense of personal control. Given these life circumstances, one might expect lower class individuals to engage in less prosocial behavior, prioritizing self-interest over the welfare of others. The authors hypothesized, by contrast, that lower class individuals orient to the welfare of others as a means to adapt to their more hostile environments and that this orientation gives rise to grea… Show more

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“…Regarding participants' (first-level) attributes, we find that contrary to previous works (Piff et al, 2010), the SES of participants is not associated with the amount they sent in the game (see Table 2), as all specifications yield a small and non-significant coefficient. However, there is a positive and significant association between participants' social values orientation (SVO) and the amount of money they sent, as in Piff et al, (2010): more egalitarian/altruistic individuals tended to send significantly larger amounts.…”
Section: Resultscontrasting
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Regarding participants' (first-level) attributes, we find that contrary to previous works (Piff et al, 2010), the SES of participants is not associated with the amount they sent in the game (see Table 2), as all specifications yield a small and non-significant coefficient. However, there is a positive and significant association between participants' social values orientation (SVO) and the amount of money they sent, as in Piff et al, (2010): more egalitarian/altruistic individuals tended to send significantly larger amounts.…”
Section: Resultscontrasting
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Specifically, a social gradient was identified in both internalizing and externalizing symptoms, which confirmed preceding evidence (Katsantonis & Symonds, 2023; Patalay & Fitzsimons, 2018). In contrast to past evidence (Piff et al, 2010), we found that higher SES was connected to greater prosociality in the long term. Finally, we noticed a relatively small effect of family mental health symptoms on both stable child symptoms and prosociality.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Findings from the current study, however, differ from the studies mentioned above [27][28][29][30] in two important ways. First, the current findings pertain to neighborhood (vs. individual) SES.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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