Principia

Principia CC — Prosocial Motivation

Principia (generated) · 2026 · Prosocial Motivation — the desire to expend effort to benefit and care for the wellbeing of other people

Principia CC Instrument · license CC0-1.0 · calibration pending
L1-generated (PRN-157): LLM-authored from construct + design rules + public-domain exemplars; passed the item-quality linter (≥B) + anti-derivative novelty gate. NOT yet empirically calibrated (PRN-158). Design-quality gated, not yet empirically validated — reliability and validity are earned from data. Pilot it via POST /api/v1/methods/item-calibration to calibrate.

Items

Each item shows its design grade (item-quality linter) and keying. Discrimination/difficulty appear once the instrument is calibrated on pilot data.

  1. I enjoy helping others when they are in need. grade A (positive-keyed)
  2. I try to make time for people who need support. grade A (positive-keyed)
  3. Seeing others happy makes me feel good inside. grade A (positive-keyed)
  4. I often volunteer my time for community projects. grade B (positive-keyed)
  5. I feel a sense of duty to help those less fortunate. grade A (positive-keyed)
  6. I prefer to focus on my own needs first. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  7. I often ignore requests for help from others. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  8. I find it hard to care about other people's problems. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  9. I avoid situations where I might need to help someone. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  10. I believe my time is better spent on my own interests. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  11. I feel motivated to support friends during tough times. grade A (positive-keyed)
  12. I find joy in acts of kindness towards strangers. grade A (positive-keyed)

Reliability & validity

Reliability
Not recorded
Validity
Not recorded

Items measuring this instrument

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