Cognitive abstraction increases prosociality when loyalty is valued lowly, but decreases prosociality when loyalty is valued highly.

Sci Rep · 2025 · PMC12227541 · PMID 40615676

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For participants who valued loyalty highly, cognitive abstraction led to less ECUs given to the fellow participant than concreteness, but this simple effect did not reach statistical significance within the observed range of the data.

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