ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Inspired to Lend a Hand? Attempts to Elicit Prosocial Behavior Through Goal Contagion.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Close relationship partners of impartial altruists do not report diminished relationship quality and are similarly altruistic.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Ripples in the pond: Evidence for contagious cooperative role modeling through moral elevation and calling in a small pre-study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- When your goals inspire my goals: the role of effort, personal value, and inference in goal contagion.Comprehensive results in social psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Helping often occurs in a broader social context. Every day, people observe others who require help, but also others who provide help. Research on goal contagion suggests that observing other people's goal-directed behavior (like helping) activates the same goal in the observer. Thus, merely observing a prosocial act could inspire people to act on the same goal. This effect should be even stronger, the more the observer's disposition makes him or her value the goal. In the case of prosocial goals, we looked at the observer's social value orientation (SVO) as a moderator of the process. In three studies (
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