Social distance modulates prosocial behaviors in the gain and loss contexts: An event-related potential (ERP) study

This study aimed at examining how social distance modulates costly prosocial behaviors in the gain (i.e., helping another win a good outcome) and loss contexts (i.e., helping another avoid a bad outcome). To this end, participants were instructed to choose between two lotteries – One of the two lotteries was costly to their payment and always better than the other, which would result in the other person having a greater chance of ending up with...