Timely Feedback Promotes Prosocial Behavior of Adolescents

Abstract

The purpose of this experiment is to explore the influence of benign feedback on subjects' behaviors in social interaction. In this experiment, students from a middle school were selected as subjects, and two-factor mixed design was used to explore the amount of money allocated to them in the case of more benign feedback and less benign feedback, as well as changing the presentation order of the two situations. The results showed that in the situation of more benign feedback, the amount allocation is more than that in the situation of less benign feedback. And when more benign feedback is presented first, the amount allocation of subjects is also more than when less benign feedback is presented first. Therefore, in dealing with people, don't be stingy about saying "thank you", it will promote people's pro-social behavior, and the impact is persistent.