促进还是阻碍：调节定向对不同社会阶层亲社会行为的影响

Abstract: "Recent studies suggest the puzzling relationship between social class and prosocial behavior should be understood with boundary conditions. Across four studies, we draw on regulatory focus to examine how social class affects prosocial behavior. We found that social class itself has a limited effect on prosocial behavior, however, lower-class individuals are more sensitive to the change of prosociality brought by regulatory focus than their higher-class counterparts (Study 1, 2a & 2b). And this asymmetric sensitivity leads to the between-class discrepancy in prosociality, especially for individuals with regulatory focus raising prosociality (Study 2a & 2b). Moreover, a framingdependent effect of regulatory focus on prosociality is found. Promotion focus increases prosociality in the positive frame and decreases prosociality in the negative frame, while prevention focus behaves reversely (Study 1-3). And this effect is partially explained by status quo strategy in goal pursuit (Study 3).These results shed light on the links among social class, regulatory focus and prosocial behavior.