Tolerance to ambiguous uncertainty predicts prosocial behavior.
Tolerance to ambiguous uncertainty predicts prosocial behavior.
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DOI：
10.1038/s41467-018-04631-9
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发表时间：
2018-06-12
影响因子：
16.6
通讯作者：
FeldmanHall O
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作者：
Vives ML;FeldmanHall O
不确定性是人类生活的基本特征，可以分为两种不同的心理结构：风险（已知的概率结果）和模糊性（未知的概率结果）。虽然已知风险和模糊性对非社会决策有很大的偏见，但它们对亲社会行为的影响在很大程度上仍未被探索。本研究表明，模棱两可态度而非风险态度能够预测亲社会行为：个体的模棱两可容忍度越高，在合作决定（实验1和3）和信任选择（实验2）中，他们的亲社会行为代价越高。一旦与他人行为相关的模糊性得到充分解决，模糊性容忍和亲社会选择之间的关系就被消除了（实验3）。综上所述，这些结果提供了一致的证据，表明对模棱两可的态度是一个人愿意参与代价高昂的社会行为的有力预测因素，这表明了亲社会行为的潜在动机机制。模棱两可的不确定性是指不知道具体结果的可能性的情况。在这里，作者表明，容忍模棱两可的不确定性的人更有可能做出代价高昂的决定，与他人合作或信任他人。
Uncertainty is a fundamental feature of human life that can be fractioned into two distinct psychological constructs: risk (known probabilistic outcomes) and ambiguity (unknown probabilistic outcomes). Although risk and ambiguity are known to powerfully bias nonsocial decision-making, their influence on prosocial behavior remains largely unexplored. Here we show that ambiguity attitudes, but not risk attitudes, predict prosocial behavior: the greater an individual’s ambiguity tolerance, the more they engage in costly prosocial behaviors, both during decisions to cooperate (experiments 1 and 3) and choices to trust (experiment 2). Once the ambiguity associated with another’s actions is sufficiently resolved, this relationship between ambiguity tolerance and prosocial choice is eliminated (experiment 3). Taken together, these results provide converging evidence that attitudes toward ambiguity are a robust predictor of one’s willingness to engage in costly social behavior, which suggests a mechanism for the underlying motivations of prosocial action. Ambiguous uncertainty refers to situations where the likelihood of specific outcomes are not known. Here, the authors show that people tolerant to ambiguous uncertainty are more likely to make costly decisions to cooperate with or trust others.
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