@article{0680d60b3a2145438d56b17d56e86a59,
title = "Prosocial Behavior Is Associated With Transdiagnostic Markers of Affective Sensitivity in Multiple Domains",
abstract = "Prosocial behaviors—actions that benefit others—fundamentally shape our interpersonal interactions. Psychiatric disorders have been suggested to be related to prosocial disturbances, which may underlie many of their social impairments. However, broader affective traits, present to different degrees in both psychiatric and healthy populations, also have been linked to variability in prosociality. Therefore, it is unclear to what extent prosocial variability is explained by specific psychiatric disorders relative to broad affective traits. Using a computational, transdiagnostic approach in two online studies, we found that participants who reported being more affectively reactive across a broad cluster of traits manifested greater frequencies of prosocial actions in two different contexts: They reported being more averse to harming others for profit, and they were more willing to exert effort to benefit others.",
keywords = "Affective traits, Computational modeling, Prosocial behavior, Psychiatric traits, Transdiagnostic",
author = "Contreras-Huerta, {Luis Sebastian} and Lockwood, {Patricia L.} and Geoffrey Bird and Apps, {Matthew A.J.} and Crockett, {Molly J.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was funded by a Wellcome Trust ISSF Award (204826/Z/16/Z) and an Academy of Medical Sciences (SBF001\1008) Grant to Molly J. Crockett; a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship (BB/R010668/1) to Matthew A. J. Apps; a Medical Research Council Fellowship (MR/P014097/1), Christ Church Junior Research Fellowship, and Christ Church Research Centre grant to Patricia L. Lockwood; and a Becas Chile-CONICYT program to Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the article. Data and main analyses can be found following this link: https://osf.io/hkbzq/?view_only=b6eefb6fe79d4f448b7f0adc7979834b. Matthew A. J. Apps and Molly J. Crockett contributed equally to this article Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020. The Author(s)",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1037/emo0000813",
language = "English",
volume = "22",
pages = "820--835",
journal = "Emotion",
issn = "1528-3542",
publisher = "American Psychological Association",
number = "5",
}