RT Article
T1 Survey Response and Observed Behavior: Emancipative and Secular Values Predict Prosocial Behaviors
JF Journal of cross-cultural psychology
VO 48
IS 4
SP 461
OP 489
A1 Kistler, Deborah
A1 Thöni, Christian
A1 Welzel, Christian
A2 Thöni, Christian
A2 Welzel, Christian
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1809891981
AB Since decades, cross-cultural psychology examines moral values using data from standardized surveys, assuming that values guide human behavior. We add to this literature by studying the link between moral values and various forms of prosocial behavior, using data from respondents of the sixth World Values Survey in Germany who participated in an online behavioral experiment. The experiment consists of a series of incentivized tasks and allows us to elaborate the association between survey-measured values and three facets of observed prosocial behavior. The evidence boils down to three findings. While (a) emancipative values relate to higher common pool contributions and (b) higher donations to charitable organizations, (c) secular values are linked with more productive and less protective investments. As these results conform to key theories and reach empirical significance in a major postindustrial nation, we conclude that we have important evidence at hand highlighting the potential of combined survey-experiment methods to establish value–behavior links that are otherwise inexplorable.
K1 Property
K1 Prosocial behavior
K1 Cooperation
K1 equivalence
K1 Survey
K1 Experiment
K1 Behavior
K1 Values
DO 10.1177/0022022117696799