Emergent-Organizational Altruism and Fast-Slow Thinking and Their Relationship to Social Courage among Medical College Students

The present study addressed emergency–organizational altruism and fast–slow thinking and their relationship to social courage among students of the College of Medicine. The research sample consisted of students from the College of Medicine at the University of Wasit, in the morning program, of both genders (male and female) for the academic year (2024–2025). To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher constructed a scale of emergency–organizational altruism based on the model of Fromell et al. (2018), which in its final form consisted of (20) items. The researcher also adopted the scale developed by Al-Tamimi (2015), which was based on the fast–slow thinking theory of Kahneman (2011). In addition, the researcher developed a social courage scale based on Howard’s (2019) theory of social courage. The psychometric properties of validity and reliability were established. The scales were then administered to the main research sample of (314) fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-year medical students (male and female). The collected data were statistically analyzed using appropriate statistical methods. The current study aimed to identify the following: 1. Emergency–organizational altruism among medical students. 2. Fast–slow thinking among medical students. 3. Social courage among medical students. 4. The correlational relationship between emergency–organizational altruism and social courage among medical students. 5. The correlational relationship between fast–slow thinking and social courage among medical students. 6. Differences in the correlational relationship between emergency–organizational altruism and social courage according to gender and academic stage among medical students. 7. Differences in the correlational relationship between fast–slow thinking and social courage according to gender and academic stage among medical students. 8. The extent to which emergency–organizational altruism and fast–slow thinking contribute to social courage among medical students. The study reached the following results: 1. Medical students possess both emergency altruism and organizational altruism; however, organizational altruism was found to be more prevalent than emergency altruism. 2. Medical students demonstrate both fast thinking and slow thinking; slow thinking was found to be more prevalent than fast thinking. 3. Medical students possess statistically significant social courage. 4. There is a positive direct correlation between emergency altruism and social courage among medical students.  There is also a correlation between organizational altruism and social courage among medical students. 5. There is a positive direct correlation between fast thinking and social courage among medical students.  There is also a positive direct correlation between slow thinking and social courage among medical students. 6. There are gender-based differences in the correlational relationship between emergency altruism and social courage in favor of males.  There are no gender differences in the correlational relationship between organizational altruism and social courage.  There are no differences in the correlational relationship between emergency altruism and social courage according to academic stage.  There are no differences in the correlational relationship between organizational altruism and social courage according to academic stage. 7. There are no gender differences in the correlational relationship between fast thinking and social courage.  There are no gender differences in the correlational relationship between slow thinking and social courage.  There are no differences in the correlational relationship between fast thinking and social courage according to academic stage.  There are no differences in the correlational relationship between slow thinking and social courage according to academic stage. 8. Both emergency–organizational altruism and fast–slow thinking contribute to social courage. In light of these findings, the researcher presented a set of recommendations and suggestions for future research