Effects of Watching Eyes and Norm Cues on Charitable Giving in a Surreptitious Behavioral Experiment

A series of experimental studies by multiple groups of researchers have found that displaying images of watching eyes causes people to behave more prosocially. It is not yet clear whether watching eyes increase prosocial motivation per se, or whether they simply make people's behavior more norm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Moe Fathi, Melissa Bateson, Daniel Nettle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-04-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200502