Scientific research demonstrating the beneficial impacts of being in a state of awe.

Bjørkheim, Sebastian, and Bjørn Sætrevik. ‘Risk of Infection and Appeal to Public Benefit Increase Compliance with Infection Control Measures’. PsyArXiv, 12 January 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/myv4t.

Benson-Greenwald, T., Trujillo, A., White, A., & Diekman, A. (2021). Science for Others or the Self? Presumed Motives for Science Shape Public Trust in Science. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yjvbw

Leder, J., Schütz, A., & Pastukhov, A. (Sasha). (2021). Keeping the kids home: Increasing concern for others in times of crisis. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6s28u

Alper, S., Douglas, K., & Capraro, V. (2021). Conspiracy Beliefs and Generosity across 52 Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fdyxr

Lemay, E., Kruglanski, A. W., Molinario, E., Agostini, M., Belanger, J., Gutzkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., vanDellen, M. R., team, P., & Leander, P. (2021). The Role of Values in Coping with Health and Economic Threats of COVID-19 [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6j38h

PsyArXiv Preprints | Anti-Asian Discrimination and Antiracist Bystander Behaviors amid the COVID-19 Outbreak. (n.d.). Retrieved 4 August 2021, from https://psyarxiv.com/tfsqh/

Luoto, Severi, Marjorie L. Prokosch, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Indrikis Krams, and Corey L. Fincher. “Editorial: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and Its Psychobehavioral Consequences.” Frontiers in Psychology 0 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.723282.

Betsch, C., Böhm, R., Korn, L., & Holtmann, C. (2017). On the benefits of explaining herd immunity in vaccine advocacy. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(3), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0056

Abel, M., Byker, T., & Carpenter, J. (2020). Socially Optimal Mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 Mortality Risk Perceptions and Prosocial Behavior. IZA Discussion Paper, 13560.

Vieira, J. B., Pierzchajlo, S., Jangard, S., Marsh, A., & Olsson, A. (2020). Acute defensive emotions predict increased everyday altruism during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n3t5c

Betsch, C., Böhm, R., & Korn, L. (2013). Inviting free-riders or appealing to prosocial behavior? Game-theoretical reflections on communicating herd immunity in vaccine advocacy. Health Psychology: Official Journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 32(9), 978–985. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031590

Scheffer, J. A., Cameron, D., & Inzlicht, M. (2021). Caring is Costly: People Avoid the Cognitive Work of Compassion. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jyx6q

Baal, S. van, Walasek, L., & Hohwy, J. (2021). Staying home so you can keep going out: A multiplayer self-isolation game modelling pandemic behaviour. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mh69r

Bialobrzeska, O., Baba, J., Bedyńska, S., Cichocka, A., Cislak, A., Formanowicz, M., … Kozakiewicz, K. (2020, November 29). Keep kind and carry on. Everyday kindness enhances well-being and prosocial behavior in the time of COVID-19. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n2g3m

Ferraro, P. J., Miranda, J. J., & Price, M. K. (2011). The Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-Based Policy Instruments: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment. American Economic Review, 101(3), 318–322. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.3.318

Rostami-Tabar, B., Ali, M. M., Hong, T., Hyndman, R. J., Porter, M. D., & Syntetos, A. (2020). Forecasting for Social Good. ArXiv:2009.11669 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11669

Holman, E. A., Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2020). The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic: A probability-based, nationally representative study of mental health in the U.S. Science Advances, eabd5390. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd5390

Kneer, M., & Hannikainen, I. R. (2020). Triage Dilemmas: A Window into (Ecologically Valid) Moral Cognition. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v87sb

Ehlert, A., Kindschi, M., Algesheimer, R., & Rauhut, H. (2020). Human social preferences cluster and spread in the field. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(37), 22787–22792. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000824117

Duquette, N. (2020). Heard immunity: Effective persuasion for a future COVID-19 vaccine. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jwvsp

Behrens. F., Kret. M. (2020) Under the Umbrella of Prosocial Behavior – A Critical Comparison of Paradigms. PsyArXiv Preprints. Retrieved from: https://psyarxiv.com/9uebc/

Barceló, J., & Sheen, G. (2020). Voluntary adoption of social welfare-enhancing behavior: Mask-wearing in Spain during the COVID-19 outbreak. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/6m85q

Johnson, Samuel Gregory Blane. ‘Dimensions of Altruism: Do Evaluations of Prosocial Behavior Track Social Good or Personal Sacrifice?’ Preprint. PsyArXiv, 22 August 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r85jv.

Varma, M. M., Chen, D., Lin, X. L., Aknin, L. B., & Hu, X. (2020, August 12). Prosocial behavior promotes positive emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vdw2e

van de Groep, S., Zanolie, K., Green, K., Sweijen, S., & Crone, E. (2020). A daily diary study on adolescents’ mood, concern for others, and giving behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xny2g

Branas-Garza, P., Jorrat, D. A., Alfonso, A., Espin, A. M., García, T., & Kovarik, J. (2020). Exposure to the Covid-19 pandemic and generosity in southern Spain [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6ktuz

Campos-Mercade, Pol, Armando Meier, Florian Schneider, and Erik Wengström. “Prosociality Predicts Health Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Department of Economics - University of Zurich, May 2020. https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zur:econwp:346.

Guerrero, R. J. A., Parra, A. B., Cahua, J. C. H., & Banaszak-Holl, J. (2020). Psychological problems associated with coping strategies: A web-based study in Peruvian population during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uarwz

McAvoy, A., Allen, B., & Nowak, M. A. (2020). Social goods dilemmas in heterogeneous societies. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0881-2

Dahl, Audun. ‘Young Children’s Judgments and Reasoning about Prosocial Acts’. Preprint. PsyArXiv, 28 May 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gf593.

Branas-Garza, P., Caldentey, P., Espin, A. M., García, T., & Román, A. H. (2020). Exposure to economic inequality at the age of 8 enhances prosocial behavior in adult life [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nkz5a

Galandra, C., Cerami, C., Santi, G., Dodich, A., Cappa, S., Vecchi, T., & Crespi, C. (2020). Covid-19 in mind: How job loss and health threatening events modulate risk-taking behaviours in real-life contexts [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5n942

Vieira, J., Schellhaas, S., Enström, E., & Olsson, A. (2020, May 17). Help or Flight? Increased threat imminence promotes defensive helping in humans. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bckn3

Heffner, J., Vives, M. L., & FeldmanHall, O. (2020, April 15). Emotional responses to prosocial messages increase willingness to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qkxvb

McBride, O., Murphy, J., Shevlin, M., Gibson Miller, J., Hartman, T. K., Hyland, P., … Bentall, R. (2020, April 13). Monitoring the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the general population: an overview of the context, design and conduct of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wxe2n

Alvis, L., Shook, N., & Oosterhoff, B. (2020, May 7). Adolescents’ Prosocial Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associations with Mental Health and Community Attachments. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2s73n

Lengersdorff, L., Wagner, I., & Lamm, C. (2020, April 20). When implicit prosociality trumps selfishness: the neural valuation system underpins more optimal choices when learning to avoid harm to others than to oneself. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q6psx

Fucci, E., Baquedano, C., Abdoun, O., Deroche, J., & Lutz, A. (2020, April 21). Validation of a set of stimuli to investigate the effect of attributional processes on social motivation in within-subject experiments. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nbdj4

Van Tongeren, D. R., DeWall, C. N., Chen, Z., Sibley, C. G., & Bulbulia, J. (2020, April 24). Van Tongeren et al. (2020) JPSP - Religious Residue. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000288

Shook, N., Sevi, B., Lee, J., Fitzgerald, H. N., & Oosterhoff, B. (2020, April 16). Who’s Listening? Predictors of Concern about COVID-19 and Preventative Health Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c9rfg

Yoeli, E., & Rand, D. G. (2020, April 17). A checklist for prosocial messaging campaigns such as COVID-19 prevention appeals. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rg2x9

Sætrevik, B. (2020, April 13). Realistic expectations and pro-social behavioural intentions to the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Norwegian population. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uptyq

CATTANEO, B. (2020, April 17). How insights on human behaviour can help us manage a pandemic. EU Science Hub - European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/how-insights-human-behaviour-can-help-us-manage-pandemic

Kraft-Todd, G., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Young, L. (2020, March 25). Differential virtue discounting: Public generosity is seen as more selfish than public impartiality. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zqpv7

Sailer, M., Stadler, M., Botes, E., Fischer, F., & Greiff, S. (2020, April 9). Science knowledge and trust in medicine affect individuals’ behavior in pandemic crises. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tmu8f

Columbus, S. (2020). Who Hoards? Honesty-Humility and Behavioural Responses to the 2019/20 Coronavirus Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8e62v

Jordan, J., Yoeli, E., & Rand, D. (2020). Don’t get it or don’t spread it? Comparing self-interested versus prosocially framed COVID-19 prevention messaging. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yuq7x

I'm glad to see a statement that the results from this experiment in "procosial gossip" does not translate into meaning that gossip is always good.

I wonder what insights we can take away from this and turn into action in our own environment?

I feel the antidote we need is more meaningful and real-time feedback, not gossip.