New paper from the SCAN-Unit! How does acute stress impact effortful prosocial behaviour? @elife.bsky.socialelifesciences.org/articles/87271 1/8

Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

Participants under acute stress were less willing to exert a relatively low level of physical effort for actions that benefit another person compared to actions that benefit themselves.

Previous work has shown that acute stress does not have consistent effects on prosocial behaviour at least when measured using economic games doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... 2/8