Clinical trials: Prosocial Behavior
Effort Based Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior
Effort and Antidepressant Study Test
The aim of this study is to investigate the behavioural effects and neural correlates of increasing serotonin levels in healthy volunteers, through a 7-day course of the SSRI escitalopram, on an effort-based decision-making task…
- Conditions
- Effort Based Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior, Apathy
- Trial name
- EAST (NCT06696482)
- Testing
- Escitalopram 10mg
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Social Behavior
Unleashing Unpredictability: The Batman Project and Its Impact on Prosocial Behavior and Awareness
The proposed study is an observational investigation that aims to examine the impact of an unexpected and unusual event on prosociality within the Milan metro.
- Trial name
- NCT06481748
- Testing
- Batman
- Volunteers
- 68 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Emotions, Facial Emotion Recognition
Improving Emotion Recognition Ability to Support Social Development in Children: A Quasi-Experimental Study
The goal of this quasi-experimental study is to investigate whether enhancing emotion recognition abilities can improve social behavior in primary school children.
- Conditions
- Emotions, Facial Emotion Recognition, Antisocial Behavior, Nonverbal Communication
- Trial name
- I4C (NCT07097090)
- Testing
- Emotion Recognition Training Program: A structured school-based intervention designed to enhance children's ability to recognize emotions through facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language., No Intervention: Observational Cohort
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Foggia
Sleep Restriction
Effects of Nap Restriction on Preschoolers' Empathy, Prosocial Behaviors and Executive Function
Cross-sectional evidences suggest a relationship between early childhood sleep and cognitive as well as socio-emotional functions. However, the casual relation has not been fully revealed.
- Trial name
- NCT06025669
- Testing
- Nap restriction
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Attentional Processing, Adolescent Behavior
Games & Well-Being Study
This project is focused on the neural and behavioral correlates of two different videos games that will be used as training tools.
- Trial name
- GWB (NCT01886911)
- Testing
- Attention Training Intervention Game, Prosocial Training Intervention Game, Control for Attention Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 192 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Burnout
Investigating the Effects of a Dyad Intervention on Teacher Resilience, Mental Health, and Social Emotions and Behavior
The COVID-19 pandemic increased psychological burdens in Germany, especially among teachers who have reported higher levels of emotional exhaustion and burnout compared to the general population.
- Trial name
- EduSocial1 (NCT06477250)
- Testing
- Empathy-based socio-emotional mental training
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Max Planck Social Neuroscience Lab
Health-Related Quality of Life, Physical Activity
Prosocial Behavior and Exercise Among Older Adults
The purpose of this study is to compare two exercise programs to determine how well they help older adults make exercise a regular habit after 9 months.
- Conditions
- Health-Related Quality of Life, Physical Activity, Physical Function
- Trial name
- NCT00747019
- Testing
- Prosocial Behavior Physical Activity (PBPA), Physical Exercise (PE)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Aggression, Prosocial Behavior
Media Impact on Preschool Behavior
This study tests the hypothesis that modifying the media diet of preschool children so that they watch more prosocial programming and less violent programming will result in decreased aggression and increased prosocial behavior.
- Trial name
- NCT01459835
- Testing
- media diet, nutritional intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Seattle Children's Hospital
Sleep Quality, Chronotype
Sleep, Chronotype, and Prosocial Allocation Decisions
This observational behavioural study examines whether individual differences in sleep quality, sleep timing, and chronotype are associated with prosocial allocation decisions in adults.
- Conditions
- Sleep Quality, Chronotype, Prosocial Decision-Making, Circadian Timing
- Trial name
- SCPAD (NCT07697092)
- Testing
- Sleep, Circadian, and Prosocial Allocation Assessment
- Where
- 2 sites in Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Depressive Disorder, Major, Bipolar Disorder
Characterization of the Prosocial and Prosexual Effects of GHB
The purpose of this study is to determine whether gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) has prosocial and prosexual effects in healthy male participants, and to characterize these putative effects via behavioral tests, functional magnetic…
- Conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Major, Bipolar Disorder, Autistic Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT02342366
- Testing
- GHB 35 mg/kg p.o., GHB 20 mg/kg p.o.
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 19 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Zurich
Youth
A VR Intervention for Promoting Prosocial Behavior and Well-being in Youth
The objective of the present project is to develop a gamified prosocial VR intervention for youth transitioning from secondary to tertiary education, and to test the effectiveness of the gamified prosocial VR intervention for…
- Trial name
- NCT06454851
- Testing
- Prosocial VR intervention, No intervention
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Child Behavior
The Effectiveness of a Classroom-based Intervention Promoting a Prosocial Classroom Climate in Children
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a classroom-based program promoting a prosocial classroom climate is more effective than treatment-as-usual (control condition).
- Trial name
- NCT05891067
- Testing
- SterkWerk, Treatment-as-usual
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 2,337 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Utrecht University
Prosocial Behavior, Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms
Promoting Social-emotional Development and Self-esteem in Primary School Students
This is an effectiveness study into a program ("HiRO") for improving social-emotional development, self esteem and the perceived classroom peer context in primary school students (aged 4-13 years).
- Conditions
- Prosocial Behavior, Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Healthy
- Trial name
- NCT06019429
- Testing
- HiRO, HiRO +judo, School as usual
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universiteit Leiden
Sedentary Lifestyle
Prosocial Exercise: Does Exercising for Charity Result in Greater Well-Being and Physical Activity?
The purpose of this study is to determine whether prosocial exercise (exercising for the benefit of others) results in greater well-being and physical activity when compared to personal exercise (exercising without attempting to…
- Trial name
- NCT02573454
- Testing
- App assignment
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 117 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Prosocial Behavior, Self Regulation
Effects of Mindfulness and Yoga on Preschool Students' Emotional Regulation, Behavior, and Social Participation
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if mindfulness and yoga can improve attention, problem-solving, memory, emotional awareness, and impulsivity in preschoolers.
- Conditions
- Prosocial Behavior, Self Regulation, Impulsive Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT06561373
- Testing
- Calm & Alert yoga and mindfulness
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Elizabethtown College
Prosocial Behavior
The Effect of LSD on Neural Synchrony, Prosocial Behavior, and Relationship Quality
The goal of this study is to assess the effects of LSD on neural synchrony, prosocial behavior, and relationship quality in healthy romantic couples.
- Trial name
- NCT05670184
- Testing
- LSD, Ethanol
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University
Emotional Distress, Prosocial Behavior
Intervention to Prevent Behavioral Health Symptoms Among Pandemic Affected Children
Racial and ethnic minority children who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities are disproportionately impacted by pandemic and climate-induced disasters.
- Conditions
- Emotional Distress, Prosocial Behavior, Pandemic, COVID-19, Coping Skills
- Trial name
- NCT05639465
- Testing
- JoH-C19, Switch off Get Active
- Where
- 9 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Social Emotional Learning
Learning for Hearts and Minds in Elementary School
ABSTRACT- Introduction: Skills such as recognizing and managing emotions, developing empathy, building cooperative relationships, solving problems effectively and obtaining communication skills have gained importance in several…
- Trial name
- NCT06174467
- Testing
- SEELearning Training, Waiting list group of the intervention
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Happiness, Anxiety
Prosocial Behavior Can Safeguard Mental Health and Foster Emotional Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdown measures have made mental health a pressing public health concern. Acts that focus on benefiting others-known as prosocial behaviors-offer one promising intervention that is…
- Conditions
- Happiness, Anxiety, Depression, Morality
- Trial name
- NCT04517006
- Testing
- Self-focused acts, Prosocial acts
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,328 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Toronto
Prosocial Behavior, Forgiveness
From the Heart: Comparing the Effects of Spiritual and Secular Meditation on Psychophysiology, Cognition, Mental Health, and Social Functioning in Healthy Adults
The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the effects of Christian and Islamic heart-centred spiritual meditation to mindfulness meditation and waitlist control conditions, respectively, in healthy adults.
- Conditions
- Prosocial Behavior, Forgiveness, Empathy, Pain
- Trial name
- NCT06136676
- Testing
- Arm 1 - Heart-Centred Spiritual Meditation: Christian contemplation, Arm 1 - Heart-Centred Spiritual Meditation: Islamic contemplation, Arm 2 - Action Control: Mindfulness Meditation
- Where
- 2 sites in India
- Volunteers
- 288 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Coventry University