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University of Massachusetts Amherst

2017

Social Psychology

Duties

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Duty- Vs. Rights-Focused Mindsets And Their Relationships With Prosociality, Seyed Nima Orazani Jul 2017

Duty- Vs. Rights-Focused Mindsets And Their Relationships With Prosociality, Seyed Nima Orazani

Masters Theses

Five studies investigated the links between rights-focused (RFM) and duty-focused mindsets (DFM) and prosociality. Making salient both RFM and DFM in a within-participants designs, Studies 1-2 examined the relationships of RFM and DFM with a number of outcomes related to prosocial attitudes. Results indicated that RFM and DFM both uniquely increased prosociality. Experimentally inducing either RFM or DFM in a between-participants design, Study 3 found that RFM had stronger effects on prosocial outcomes than DFM. Further, Study 3 showed that this relative advantage of RFM over DFM in boosting prosociality was due to RFM (relative to DFM) increasing people’s perceived …