A Typology of Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Prosocial Decisions
这篇理论文章提出一个包含情绪、道德原则、预期影响和预期个人后果四大类别的类型学，用于组织和理解驱动或抑制人类亲社会行为的心理机制，帮助研究者和实践者更好地区分这些机制。
This theoretical article summarizes the various psychological and motivational processes that underlie prosocial decision-making. To this aim, we propose a novel way to organize and synthesize research related to emotions, thoughts, and beliefs (i.e., psychological mechanisms) that motivate or demotivate human prosociality. This is done with a new typology including four overarching interrelated categories, each encompassing multiple subcategories: (a) emotions; (b) moral principles; (c) anticipated impact; and (d) anticipated personal consequences. We highlight differences and commonalities to other influential frameworks and showcase how the proposed typology can help researchers and practitioners better differentiate and understand the diverse psychological mechanisms that underlie human prosociality.