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    "pk": 29719,
    "title": "Popular Peers Promote Prosocial Behavior",
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    "abstract": "Dispositions for prosociality undergo major changes during adolescence, a period of increased sensitivity to peer influenceand incipient internalization of societal norms. However, the proximate mechanisms favoring the development of prosocialpreferences are poorly understood. Here, we show that high-status peers affect adolescents prosocial decision making.Participants repeatedly chose to either donate money to a charity or keep it for themselves and could revise their decisionupon observing the (opposite) decisions of either a high-status or low-status peer from their classroom. Participantstended to conform to peer behavior, reversing their initial preference. Importantly, this pattern was especially strong whenobserving high-status peers, suggesting that norm signalling from high-status peers can be instrumental for the diffusionof prosocial behavior. Using a novel incentivized paradigm in a naturalistic setting, we provide experimental evidencefor the role of high-status peers in the development of prosocial preferences and outline a potential path for interventionsaimed at spreading prosocial norms.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [],
    "section": "Poster Session 1",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86q9b27s",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Andrea",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gradassi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Amsterdam",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Scarlett",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Slagter",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Amsterdam",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Wouter",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "van den Bos",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Amsterdam",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Lucas",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Molleman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Amsterdam",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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