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.

Moving Toward Helping Behavior: The Roles of Sympathy, Helping Goal Attainability, and Locomotion Orientation / Baldner, C.; Pierro, A.; Kruglanski, A. W.. - In: BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 0197-3533. - 42:3(2020), pp. 133-149. [10.1080/01973533.2020.1716358]

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

Baldner C.
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Pierro A.
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2020

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.
2020
Sympathy; Helping Behavior: Goals
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Moving Toward Helping Behavior: The Roles of Sympathy, Helping Goal Attainability, and Locomotion Orientation / Baldner, C.; Pierro, A.; Kruglanski, A. W.. - In: BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 0197-3533. - 42:3(2020), pp. 133-149. [10.1080/01973533.2020.1716358]
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