Leder, JohannesJohannesLeder0000-0002-6413-4513Schütz, AstridAstridSchütz0000-0002-6358-167XPastukhov, AlexanderAlexanderPastukhov0000-0002-8738-85912022-12-092022-12-0920232151-25901864-9335https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/57005During the COVID-19 pandemic, social consequences in day-to-day decisions might not have been salient to the decider and thus egoistic. How can prosocial intentions be increased? In an experimental vignette study with N = 206, we compared the likelihood that parents send sick children to kindergarten after four interventions (general information about COVID-19, empathy, reflection of consequences via mental simulation, and control group). Independent of the intervention, empathic concern with individuals who were affected by COVID-19 and the salience of social consequences were high. The reported likelihood of sending a sick child to kindergarten was somewhat reduced in the control group and even more reduced in the reflection and empathy group, but not in the information group.engCOVID-19prosocial intentionsempathycrisismental simulation150article10.1027/1864-9335/a000463