Open Access<p>Do All Types of Compassion Increase Prosocial Lying?</p>
Author(s) -
Fang Xu,
Lixiang Chen,
Jie Wang,
Qun Zhang,
Lei Mo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychology research and behavior management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1179-1578
DOI - 10.2147/prbm.s238246
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , lying , psychology , compassion , helping behavior , trait , self compassion , social psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , theology , mindfulness , philosophy , computer science , radiology , programming language
Previous studies have shown that compassion increases prosocial lying. However, in the present study, we proposed that compassion toward individuals who are frustrated in striving for minimal living conditions (named here as compassion for other's survival in suffering, abbreviated as COSS) increases prosocial lying, while compassion toward individuals frustrated in seeking development conditions (named here as compassion for other's development in suffering, abbreviated as CODS) has little effect on prosocial lying.