Pain as Social Glue: Shared Pain Increases Cooperation
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 2 replications of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 failed, 1 successful. The earliest on record is from 2020.
Replications
- Pain as Social Glue: A Preregistered Direct Replication of Experiment 2 of Bastian et al. (2014), Prochazka et al. (2022). Psychological Science. Outcome recorded: failed.
No relevant effect of shared pain on cooperation emerged.
Outcome read from the abstract. View paper - Pain and sharing: A re-examination of the findings of Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris (2014), Qi et al. (2020). Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology. Outcome recorded: successful.
We conducted two experiments to investigate the relative effects of pain and sharing on enhancing people's bonding and cooperative behavior by adding conditions of unshared pain and unshared no-pain. In experiment 1, we replicated Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris's ( 2014 ) findings, and found that the effect of pain on bonding was mediated by empathy. In experiment 2, we used a 2 (pain/no-pain) × 2 (shared/unshared) design and found that while shared pain still induced more…
Outcome read from the abstract. View paper
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Bastian, B., Jetten, J., & Ferris, L. J. (2014). Pain as Social Glue: Shared Pain Increases Cooperation. Psychological Science, 25(11), 2079–2085. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614545886
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