{"pk":29719,"title":"Popular Peers Promote Prosocial Behavior","subtitle":null,"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":{"name":"","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","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29719/galley/19576/download/"}]}