Affiliative Stimuli as Primers to Prosocial Predispositions

  1. Souza, Gabriela Guerra Leal 1
  2. Pereira, Mirtes Garcia 2
  3. Vila Castellar, Jaime 3
  4. Oliveira, Letícia 2
  5. Volchan, Eliane 4
  1. 1 Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
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    Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

    Ouro Preto, Brasil

    ROR https://ror.org/056s65p46

  2. 2 Universidade Federal Fluminense
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    Universidade Federal Fluminense

    Niterói, Brasil

    ROR https://ror.org/02rjhbb08

  3. 3 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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    Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Río de Janeiro, Brasil

    ROR https://ror.org/03490as77

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Revista:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Ano de publicación: 2012

Volume: 15

Número: 1

Páxinas: 237-243

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5209/REV_SJOP.2012.V15.N1.37315 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: The Spanish Journal of Psychology

Resumo

Affiliative stimuli are pleasant and highly biologically relevant. Affiliative cues are thought to elicit a prosocial predisposition. Here affiliative and neutral pictures were exposed prior to a reaction time task which consisted in responding to a visual target. Half the participants responded with finger-flexion, a movement frequently involved in prosocial activities. The other half responded with finger extension, a less prosocially compatible movement. Results showed that under the exposure to affiliative pictures, as compared to neutral ones, participants who used finger flexion were faster, while those using finger extension were slower. Performance benefits to the task, when flexing the finger, together with performance costs, when extending it, indicate the relevance of movement compatibility to the context. These findings put forward a possible link between affiliative primers and motor preparation to facilitate a repertoire of movements related to prosocial predispositions including finger flexion.

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This research was supported by FAPERJ, CNPq, CAPES, CNC and FINEP.

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