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Smarter individuals engage in more prosocial behavior in daily life, study finds

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  1. drannex
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    Huge red flags there for any study, too scant of a general public (using only college students), and using self reporting for 'prosocial' behavior is highly unlikely to be anywhere close to...

    Researchers recruited 518 undergraduate students from two colleges in China to participate in the study. The participants completed surveys designed to measure their fluid intelligence, empathy, and self-reported prosocial behavior.

    Huge red flags there for any study, too scant of a general public (using only college students), and using self reporting for 'prosocial' behavior is highly unlikely to be anywhere close to accurate as each person will define what makea themselves more comfortable with the answer.

    The second part in the study (from the paper directly) focused on 'moral' character attachment to help define prosocial behaviors, something that is widely different for each individual person.

    I don't trust this study on any level and the results seem skewed towards a biased conclusion.

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