TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pancotto, F
A1  - Righi, S
JF  - Scientific Reports
PB  - Springer Science and Business Media LLC
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91960-3
ID  - discovery10130015
N2  - Is pro sociality a natural impulse or the result of a self-controlled behavior? We investigate this issue in a lab in the field experiment with participants from the general adult population in Italy. We find two key results: first, that there is a positive relationship between pro sociality and strategic reasoning. Second, that reflectivity relates to lower pro sociality but only among strategic subjects, indicating that the intuitive view of pro sociality is valid only among strategic individuals. Non-strategic individuals are instead intuitively selfish. We surmise that these results emerge due to a common cognitive root between strategizing and pro sociality, namely empathy.
N1  - This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
IS  - 1
AV  - public
Y1  - 2021/06/17/
VL  - 11
TI  - Reflectivity relates differently to pro sociality in naïve and strategic subjects
ER  -