Moving Toward Helping Behavior: The Roles of Sympathy, Helping Goal Attainability, and Locomotion Orientation

IF 2.5 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Basic and Applied Social Psychology Pub Date : 2020-02-20 DOI:10.1080/01973533.2020.1716358

Conrad Baldner, Antonio Pierro, A. Kruglanski

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract Why do some people help others in need, and some do not? One potential answer is sympathy, which reflects an other-focused desire to help others in need. Consequentially, we posit that sympathy toward a specific target joined with the attainability of successful helping forms a helping goal. In three experiments we found that helping behavior was highest when a helping goal was present, although there was a level of superficial helping when sympathy was high but attainability low. Moreover, locomotion mode, or the tendency to move forward, was associated with a higher importance placed on attainability.

查看原文本刊更多论文

走向帮助行为:同情、帮助目标可达性和运动倾向的作用

摘要为什么有些人帮助需要帮助的人，而有些人却不帮助？一个潜在的答案是同情，这反映了帮助其他需要帮助的人的另一种专注的愿望。因此，我们认为，对特定目标的同情与成功帮助的可实现性共同构成了帮助目标。在三个实验中，我们发现当存在帮助目标时，帮助行为最高，尽管当同情度高但可获得性低时，会有一定程度的表面帮助。此外，运动模式或向前移动的趋势与对可达性的高度重视有关。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Basic and Applied Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

12.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) emphasizes the publication of outstanding research articles, but also considers literature reviews, criticism, and methodological or theoretical statements spanning the entire range of social psychological issues. The journal will publish basic work in areas of social psychology that can be applied to societal problems, as well as direct application of social psychology to such problems. The journal provides a venue for a broad range of specialty areas, including research on legal and political issues, environmental influences on behavior, organizations, aging, medical and health-related outcomes, sexuality, education and learning, the effects of mass media, gender issues, and population problems.