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2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Materialism and Prosocial Tendency: Roles of Empathy and Self-Concept Clarity

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Social Psychology

  • Zhansheng Chen
    The University of Hong Kong
  • Tonglin Jiang
    Peking University
  • Pan Xinyu
    The University of Hong Kong

Abstract

We aimed to examine the mechanism of the negative association between materialism and prosocial tendency. Our three studies showed that empathy mediates the relationship between materialism and prosocial tendency. Moreover, such a mediation process happens when people’s self-concept clarity is low, but not when it is high (Study 3).

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