Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06620-x, published online 02 March 2022

The original version of this Article contained errors, where Table 4 was incomplete. Furthermore, the statement under the column “55+” in the row “Day 1” was incorrectly placed into Table 4. The original Table 4 and accompanying legend appear below.

Table 4 Proportion of how often participants reported an empathy opportunity, an opportunity to be the target of empathy, and acting prosocially, as well as the mean value of well-being relative to all surveys answered per day, shown as a function of survey day and age group.
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“All participants provided informed consent regarding their participation in the project, and were told they were free to cease their participation at any point. All procedures were approved by the University of Toronto Research Ethics Board to ensure they adhered to relevant ethical guidelines for human data collection and usage (Protocol No. 36941).” has now been placed correctly in the Methods section, under the sub-section ‘Participants’.

The original Article has been corrected.