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Background Close others' pro-environmental or anti-environmental behaviors can create a vicarious trap: good deeds trigger licensing (reducing one's own effort), and bad deeds induce identification (justifying inaction). However, how this trap can be...
We examine the impact of CEOs’ inherited altruistic inclination on firm corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and shareholder returns. Specifically, we look at U.S. CEOs’ altruism as an inheritedvalue of the CEOs’ ancestral cultural...
People often act without knowing exactly how their actions impact others. Here, across nine preregistered online experiments (N= 8,769 adults, predominantly US residents), we tested whether people exploit this ambiguity to make themselves look...
Existing studies have explored the influence of leaders’ unethical behavior on employees’ unethical behavior but have largely confined their focus to the leader-employee dyadic interaction, overlooking how such an effect unfolds within broader...
Background Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour are major contributors to the rising burden of non-communicable diseases, particularly among young adults. University students are increasingly adopting sedentary lifestyles owing to academic...
Background This study examined changes in salivary oxytocin concentrations and subjective well-being accompanying direct and remote intergenerational exchange with children in older women. Given the increasing use of remote communication, we also...
Current bullying prevention efforts primarily focus on victims, lacking a more effective upstream approach targeting perpetrators. This study evaluated the potential culturally specific associations of self-compassion and self-coldness with...
This study examines the relationship between perceived corporate philanthropy and employee satisfaction and investigates the moderating roles of employee ethics and firm size. Survey data were collected from 919 adult employees working for...
Importance Although research on the different roles involved in bullying and their relationship with moral emotions has advanced, most of the available evidence comes from quantitative studies, and there is still limited qualitative understanding of...
For Chinese left-behind adolescents, school-based relational and academic experiences may be especially important for prosocial development because prolonged parental absence due to migration can reduce the consistency of everyday parental support....
Managers’ efforts to repair workplace harm are known to benefit both offenders and organizations, yet related research suggests these restorative actions could also lead to unintended negative consequences. Drawing on a framework of restorative...
Trust plays a crucial role in refugees’ integration. This study examines how social information about trust levels among peers from home and host countries affects non-Western refugees’ trust. Using a trust game, we experimentally measured trust...
Retaining employees remains a persistent challenge for organizations, and conventional human resource management frameworks typically address it through economic exchange, leaving open the question of how HR systems oriented toward the common good...
Gift giving is used ubiquitously to form and maintain reciprocal relationships in developing countries. However, studies increasingly report concerns about its role in exacerbating poverty and inequality. This paper explores the impact of gift...
Relational transgressions, such as infidelity, significantly challenge emotional and psychological well-being, often resulting in responses that lean toward either forgiveness or vengeance. Despite the frequency of these behaviors, little is known...
Pair programming is one of the important strategies for conducting programming education, which is believed to enhance students’ coding quality, achievements, and computational thinking. However, the specific implementation of pair programming...
Costly punishment is widely known to reduce free-riding in social dilemmas, but the heterogeneous motivations underlying this behavior—responding to uncooperative intentions versus correcting unequal outcomes—remain difficult to disentangle. In...
This study aimed to determine the mediating role of significance quest in the relationship between relative deprivation and aggression among adolescents. The study included 544 Turkish adolescents, of whom 348 were female (64%) and 196 were male...
Purpose Siblings of individuals with disabilities, including autism, often plan to assume future caregiving roles. Yet, most extant research relies on convenience samples wherein the autistic brother/sister does not have distressing behaviors. In the...
Understanding the psychosocial determinants of waste reduction intentions remains essential for promoting sustainable consumption and recycling behaviors, particularly in underrepresented developing regions. This study examines waste reduction...
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Journal of Youth and Adolescenceprovides a single, high-level medium of communication for psychologists, psychiatrists, biologists, criminologists,...
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Current Psychologyis an international forum for rapid dissemination of peer-reviewed research at the cutting edge of psychology. It welcomes...
