With great power comes great responsibility: Superhero primes and expansive poses influence prosocial behavior after a motion-controlled game task

This study examined how priming social concepts and manipulating physical poses when playing a motion-sensing flight game affected ensuing prosocial behaviors. After the experimenter “accidentally” dropped pencils, participants primed with superheroes were faster at helping compared with a control condition. Participants who controlled the game while standing and holding expansive poses helped more compared with those in the expansive...