WANG Jingyan, ZHANG Hong. (2024). Intuition or deliberation? Decision making strategies in prosocial behavior and perceptions of humanness. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 56(9), 1225-1238.
Table 1 Descriptive statistics of humanness perceptions by experimental condition, Study 1
Humanness
Intuitive
Deliberative
(N = 90)
(N = 86)
M
SD
M
SD
Human Nature
5.90
0.89
5.10
1.07
Human Uniqueness
4.87
0.88
5.01
0.91
Figure 1.Humanness perceptions as a function of decision strategy (under highly emotional situation), Study 1. Note. ns, non-significant; *** p < 0.001.
Figure 1. Humanness perceptions as a function of decision strategy (under highly emotional situation), Study 1. Note. ns, non-significant; *** p < 0.001.
Table 2 Descriptive statistics of humanness perceptions by experimental condition, Study 2
Table 2 Descriptive statistics of humanness perceptions by experimental condition, Study 2
Humanness
High emotional (N = 206)
Low emotional (N = 198)
Intuitive (N = 101)
Deliberative (N = 105)
Intuitive (N = 99)
Deliberative (N = 99)
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
Human Nature
5.90
0.63
5.69
0.84
5.26
0.88
5.51
0.74
Human Uniqueness
5.26
0.89
5.48
0.83
4.56
1.01
5.16
0.97
Figure 2.Humanness perceptions as a function of decision strategy and situational emotionality, Study 2. Note. ns, non-significant; *p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001.
Figure 2. Humanness perceptions as a function of decision strategy and situational emotionality, Study 2. Note. ns, non-significant; *p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001.
Table 3 Descriptive statistics of humanness perceptions by experimental condition, Study 3
Table 3 Descriptive statistics of humanness perceptions by experimental condition, Study 3
Humanness
High emotional (N = 228)
Low emotional (N = 236)
Intuitive (N = 113)
Deliberative (N = 115)
Intuitive (N = 121)
Deliberative (N = 115)
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
Human Nature
5.99
0.61
5.72
0.86
5.77
0.84
5.84
0.86
Human Uniqueness
5.62
0.78
5.63
0.85
5.24
1.06
5.65
0.85
Figure 3.Humanness perceptions as a function of decision strategy and situational emotionality, Study 3. Note. ns, non-significant; *p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001.
Figure 3. Humanness perceptions as a function of decision strategy and situational emotionality, Study 3. Note. ns, non-significant; *p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001.
Table 4 Descriptive statistics of humanness perceptions by experimental condition, Study 4
Table 4 Descriptive statistics of humanness perceptions by experimental condition, Study 4
Humanness
Positive consequences (N = 204)
Control (N = 196)
Negative consequences (N = 213)
Intuitive (N = 100)
Deliberative (N = 104)
Intuitive (N = 102)
Deliberative (N = 94)
Intuitive (N = 108)
Deliberative (N = 105)
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
Human Nature
5.45
0.97
5.59
1.02
5.06
0.94
5.50
0.90
4.77
0.93
4.91
1.10
Human Uniqueness
5.04
1.12
5.20
1.01
4.47
1.12
5.23
0.95
4.00
0.99
4.37
1.11
Figure 4.Humanness perceptions as a function of decision strategy and behavioral consequences (under low emotional condition), Study 4. Note. ns, non-significant; **p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001; Error bars represent ± 1 SE.
Figure 4. Humanness perceptions as a function of decision strategy and behavioral consequences (under low emotional condition), Study 4. Note. ns, non-significant; **p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001; Error bars represent ± 1 SE.