Too hot to help or too cold to care? On the links between ambient temperature, volunteerism, and civic engagement.
We investigated the relationship between ambient temperature and prosocial behaviour in real‐life settings. It was guided by two mechanisms of opposite predictions, namely (1) higher temperatures decrease prosociality by harming well‐being, and (2) higher temperatures increase prosociality by promot...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 114; no. 4; pp. 945 - 969 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2023
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