Data for: Selfish or Altruistic? Responses When Safety is Threatened Depend on Childhood Socioeconomic Status
Description
The results of four studies provide reliable evidence that individuals with higher childhood socioeconomic status are more likely to demonstrate altruistic behaviors when facing threats to their safety. However, their childhood socioeconomic status has no significant impact on their altruism in situations where there is no safety threat. Study 1 used big data (10,724)to verify the findings on the background of environmental protection. Three subsequent experiments further supported our hypotheses that participants from wealthier childhood backgrounds exhibited higher altruistic intentions (Studies 2 and 3) and behaviors (Study 4) when they were manipulated to imagine a safety threat scenario (Study 2), view pictures of disasters (Study 3) and experience an epidemic event (Study 4). These dataset contains four sheets of data for four studies and three sheets of data for pre-test in Study 1, 3 and 4. And a supplemental material is provided which had more details about the full item descriptions in Study 1, further analyses in Study 1 and experimental materials used in Study 2, 3 and 4.