Investigating the role of self-sacrificing prosociality in intragroup and intergroup contexts

• Main Author: Katna, Dashalini P.
• Other Authors: Bobby K. Cheon
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology::Experimental psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143505
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Parochial cooperation theories assume that strongly self-sacrificing members primarily desire and seek to achieve ingroup-favouring outcomes, and consequently become prepared to bear extreme costs to themselves. This altruism to help, however, does not always extend into intergroup contexts. Instead...