Decision-making process underlying bystanders’ helping cyberbullying victims: A behavioral economic analysis of role of social discounting

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Highlights:

• We examined a decision-making process of bystanders' helping cyberbullying victims.

• A novel social-discounting task with cyberbullying scenarios was developed.

• Likelihood of helping victims decreased as the social distance to victims increased.

• The likelihood was greater for participants with an experience of helping victims.

• Social discounting is important for bystanders' helping cyberbullying victims.

摘要

•We examined a decision-making process of bystanders' helping cyberbullying victims.•A novel social-discounting task with cyberbullying scenarios was developed.•Likelihood of helping victims decreased as the social distance to victims increased.•The likelihood was greater for participants with an experience of helping victims.•Social discounting is important for bystanders' helping cyberbullying victims.

论文关键词:Cyberbullying,Bystanders,Social discounting,Generosity,Behavioral economics,College students

论文评审过程:Received 6 August 2019, Revised 21 September 2019, Accepted 2 October 2019, Available online 7 October 2019, Version of Record 22 October 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106157