| In daily decision-making,people often do not make decisions independently,but refer to the opinions and advice of others.As a common form of interpersonal interaction in daily life,as well as an important part of daily decision-making,the research on giving advice will enhance our understanding of interpersonal interaction,facilitate our life practice,and enrich research in the field of decision-making.Psychologists have been paying attention to giving advice for a long time,and there have been many research results on advice.There are two limitations in previous research on advice:one is that the research perspective is focused on decision makers,while ignoring the the factors and mechanisms affecting the process of giving advice;the other is that the research on advice in the field of morality is seriously lacking.This research uses survey and experiments to study people’s tendency of providing prosocial advice for different subjects.Study 1 confirms the existence of the phenomenon of not recommending other people to do prosocial behavior.Then three experiments were conducted to examine the influence of social distance and benefit level on prosocial behavior advice.Study 2 shows that social distance can influence the presentation of prosocial behavior advice.Individuals are less likely to provide prosocial advice to close others than to distant others.Study 3 shows a correlation between the level of interest and prosocial behavior advice.In the fourth study,we manipulated reward level and found an interaction between relationship closeness and reward level such that people are more inclined to recommend prosocial behavior to those who are close to them than those who are distant from them. |
