12.53 Organic foods and friendly behavior? Refer to Exercise 12.51 for the design of the experiment. After rating the moral transgressions, the participants were told “that another professor from another department is also conducting research and really needs volunteers.’’ They were told that they would not receive compensation or course credit for their help and then were asked to write down the number of minutes (out of 30) that they would be willing to volunteer. This sort of question is often used to measure a person’s prosocial behavior.