Wilfully ignoring inconvenient information decreases prosociality across diverse cultures

Catherine Molho
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Catherine Molho: TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: In a cross-national behavioural experiment, we examined how providing information about negative externalities and making decisions observable influence prosocial behaviour. Across countries, we found that knowledge of negative externalities (as compared with opportunities for ignorance) robustly increased prosociality, and that guilt-prone individuals were more responsive to information about these negative consequences of their actions.

Keywords: Cultural evolution; Human behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-08-13
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Published in Nature Human Behaviour, 2025, 9 (10), pp.2008-2009. ⟨10.1038/s41562-025-02287-2⟩

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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02287-2

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