Highlights•Dehumanization can serve as an emotion regulation strategy when facing
suffering.•In healthcare, this can be helpful or hurtful depending on context.•Healthcare …

People usually engage in (or at least profess to engage in) altruistic acts to benefit others.
Yet, they routinely fail to maximize how much good is achieved with their donated money …

We argue that the behavioral challenges posed by climate change are fundamentally
problems of social influence. Behaviors that perpetuate climate change are often opaque in …

Immersive media are often lauded for their ability to induce empathy and encourage
prosocial behavior, yet the theoretical mechanisms underlying why immersion may lead to …

In two pre-registered and fully incentivized studies (N= 501), we investigate prosocial
behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Based on a comparison with pre …

Diets based on animal products are costly to our health and the planet and often inflict
suffering on animals. In this study, we aimed to elicit animal advocacy among omnivores …

Brands have become the target of online collaborative attacks performed by networked
consumers who share negative brand content, leading to the so-called online firestorms …

We examined the role of two Subjective well-being orientations, hedonism (maximizing
pleasure and minimizing pain) and eudemonia (a desire for meaningful life), in prosocial …

Purpose This study aims to examine personal factors that drive the initiation of an online
firestorm, an online collaborative attack against a brand that usually occurs when a brand …

In response to crises, people sometimes prioritize fewer specific identifiable victims over
many unspecified statistical victims. How other factors can explain this bias remains unclear …