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cord-284972-61ayjej8	Zaki, Jamil	Catastrophe Compassion: Understanding and Extending Prosociality Under Crisis	2020-05-14		.txt	text/plain	1691	94	49	As COVID-19 spreads, communities around the world have created "mutual aid spreadsheets" to help vulnerable neighbors [6] and billions of people have engaged in physical distancing to protect public health-perhaps the most populous act of cooperation in history. Consistent with its prosocial nature, one recent study found that people expressed greater intent to follow distancing when it was framed as a way to help others, rather than protect themselves [7] . Following disasters, mutual aid also tracks increases in positive collective outcomes, such as social connection, solidarity, and shared resilience [8] . Consistent with this connection, a recent study found that individuals' empathy for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic tracked their willingness to engage in physical distancing and related protective behaviors, and that inducing empathy for vulnerable people increased intention to socially distance [9] . Such adversity often generates increases in prosocial behavior, which Staub and Vollhardt [13] have termed "altruism born of suffering." Positive effects of adversity appear to extend in time.	./cache/cord-284972-61ayjej8.txt	./txt/cord-284972-61ayjej8.txt