Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2022-06-14
Abstract：
"Recent studies suggest the puzzling relationship between social class and prosocial behavior should be understood with boundary conditions. Across four studies, we draw on regulatory focus to examine how social class affects prosocial behavior. We found that social class itself has a limited effect on prosocial behavior, however, lower-class individuals are more sensitive to the change of prosociality brought by regulatory focus than their higher-class counterparts (Study 1, 2a & 2b). And this asymmetric sensitivity leads to the between-class discrepancy in prosociality, especially for individuals with regulatory focus raising prosociality (Study 2a & 2b). Moreover, a framingdependent effect of regulatory focus on prosociality is found. Promotion focus increases prosociality in the positive frame and decreases prosociality in the negative frame, while prevention focus behaves reversely (Study 1-3). And this effect is partially explained by status quo strategy in goal pursuit (Study 3).These results shed light on the links among social class, regulatory focus and prosocial behavior.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology Subjects: Psychology >> Industrial Psychology submitted time 2021-01-15
Abstract： [Objective] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of scarcity on panic buying as well as the uderlying psychological path and its boundary. [Methods] Study 1 explored the impact of scarcity through objective indicators using bigdata.Study 2 implemented a nationwide online survey with high ecological validity during the outbreak period. Study 3 conducted three experiments by priming scarcity in different public emergencies. [Results] Scarcity intensified panic buying (study1-3), and the sense of control and panic serially mediated this strengthening effect (study 2-3). However, this serial mediation effect was only supported in the emergent public crisis with high-risk (study 3a, 3C), but was not supported in the emergent public crisis with lower-risk (study 3b). [Limitations] The chained mediation model between sense of control and panic cannot explain the psychological mechanism of scarcity caused by panic buying in the emergent public crisis with low risk perception. Future research needed continue to explore. More objective indicators of scarcity and panic buying are worthy of further investigation. [Conclusions] In the high-risk emergent public crisis, scarcity aggravates panic buying through reducing the sense of control and then increasing panic. "
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