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Social behavior
Everything on this site about social behavior — each one naming the study behind it.
- Doing a favor for someone makes you like them.The Ben Franklin effect demonstrates that helping someone actually increases your affection for them.…
- You judge your actions by circumstances but others by character.Research in the 1970s proposed an actor-observer asymmetry in attribution, though modern meta-analyses indicate this e…
- The presence of others changes your moral compass.The bystander effect demonstrates that your likelihood of intervening in an emergency decreases as the number of witne…