People in more racially diverse neighborhoods are more prosocial

• Main Authors: NAI, Jared, NARAYANAN, Jayanth, HERNANDEZ, Ivan, SAVANI, Krishna
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: diversity; identity; prosocial; socioecological psychology; big data; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Organization Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5359; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6358/viewcontent/Nai__Narayanan__Hernandez____Savani__2017_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Five studies tested the hypothesis that people living in more diverse neighborhoods would have more inclusive identities, and would thus be more prosocial. Study 1 found that people residing in more racially diverse metropolitan areas were more likely to tweet prosocial concepts in their everyday li...