Projects

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KNOW-THYSELF: Increasing Self-Knowledge to Promote Moral Behavior

Head of project: Isabel Thielmann (PI); contributors/researchers: Matthias Burghart, Nicole Casali, Tatiana Khalaf, Alicia Seidl
The functioning of societies and the quality of social relationships heavily depend on moral behaviors such as fairness, cooperation, and honesty, whereas immoral behaviors such as exploitation, dishonesty, and fraud come at tremendous societal… more

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The Core Tendencies Underlying Individual Differences in Prosocial Behavior

Head of project: Isabel Thielmann (PI); contributor/researcher: Natalie Popov
Why are some people willing to help others but other people are (rather) not? Why do some people prefer to cooperate with others whereas others are willing to exploit their interaction partners for personal gain? The project “The core tendencies underlying individual differences in prosocial… more

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Individual Differences in Selective Prosociality

Head of project: Isabel Thielmann (PI); contributor/researcher: Büşra Elif Yelbuz
Individuals select who they want to be prosocial towards. This is backed up by a longstanding literature showing that humans have the tendency to be prosocial towards certain people or groups rather than others. Yet, surprisingly, up until this point, no research has systematically investigated… more