Does Threat Trigger Prosociality? The Relation Between Basic Individual Values, Threat Appraisals, and Prosocial Helping Intentions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal Curr Psychol

Publisher Springer

Specialty Psychology

Date 2023 Jun 26

PMID 37359649

Authors

Emanuele Politi

Jasper Van Assche

Adrian Luders

Sindhuja Sankaran

Joel Anderson

Eva G T Green

Affiliations

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Abstract

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-023-04829-1.

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