A meta‐analytic review of help giving and aggression from an attributional perspective: Contributions to a general theory of motivation

Rudolph, Udo; Roesch, Scott C.; Greitemeyer, Tobias; Weiner, Bernard

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“…Request (need) for help -perceived controllable cause -anger -no aid Request (need) for help -perceived uncontrollable cause -sympathy -aid A meta-analysis including 39 research studies and nearly 8,000 participants (Rudolph, Roesch, Greitemeyer, & Weiner, 2004) has confirmed these paths and also documented that when emotion is removed from the path, there is no discernable relation between causal beliefs and action. Thus, helping is directly a matter of the heart and only 23 indirectly determined by the head.…”

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The Attribution Approach to Emotion and Motivation: History, Hypotheses, Home Runs, Headaches/Heartaches

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In this article the history of the attribution approach to emotion and motivation is reviewed. Early motivation theorists incorporated emotion within the pleasure/pain principle but they did not recognize specific emotions. This changed when Atkinson introduced his theory of achievement motivation, which argued that achievement strivings are determined by the anticipated emotions of pride and shame. Attribution theorists then suggested many other emotional reactions to success and failure that are determined by the perceived causes of achievement outcomes and the shared characteristics or dimensions of causality. The article outlines the hypothesized dimensional antecedents of a number of self- and other-directed achievement-related emotions following success (admiration, apprehension, confidence, disliking, envy, gratitude, liking, pride, and surprise) and failure (anger, guilt, helplessness, hope, hopelessness, pity, regret, Schadenfreude, scorn, shame, surprise, and sympathy). Motivational consequences of emotions also are highlighted.

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The Attribution Approach to Emotion and Motivation: History, Hypotheses, Home Runs, Headaches/Heartaches

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“…While our findings broadly support previous studies demonstrating main effects of Agreeableness and recipient characteristics (Batson et al, 2005;Batson, 2012;Eisenberg et al, 2006;Rudolph et al, 2004;Vollhardt and Staub, 2011) on donation, they also reveal more complex interactive effects that have potential implications for the understanding of personality and cooperative behavior. For example, if one construes Agreeableness solely in terms of its main effect on behavior-i.e., as a kind of general cooperation parameter that uniformly increases the likelihood of prosocial behavior in any given situation (cf.…”

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Agreeable people are more likely to display prosocial attitudes and helpful behavior in a broad range of situations. Here we show that this tendency interacts with the personal characteristics of interaction partners. In an online study (n = 284), participants were given the opportunity to report attitudes toward and make monetary donations to needy individuals who were described in dynamically generated biographies. Using a machine learning and multilevel modeling framework, we tested three potential explanations for the facilitatory influence of Agreeableness on charitable behavior. We find that Agreeableness preferentially increased donations and prosocial attitudes toward targets normatively rated as being more deserving, but not to targets considered less deserving. ABSTRACTAgreeable people are more likely to display prosocial attitudes and helpful behavior in a broad range of situations. Here we show that this tendency interacts with the personal characteristics of interaction partners. In an online study (n = 284), participants were given the opportunity to report attitudes toward and make monetary donations to needy individuals who were described in dynamically generated biographies. Using a machine learning and multilevel modeling framework, we tested three potential explanations for the facilitatory influence of Agreeableness on charitable behavior. We find that Agreeableness preferentially increased donations and prosocial attitudes toward targets normatively rated as being more deserving, but not to targets considered less deserving. Our results advance understanding of person-by-situation interactions in the context of charitable behavior and prosocial attitudes.

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“…Research has shown limited support for this proposition ( Coombs and Holladay, 2004 ;Jorgensen, 1996 ;Rudolph et al ., 2004 ). Crisis responsibility can impact behavioral intentions through emotions as well as through reputation.…”

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A meta‐analytic review of help giving and aggression from an attributional perspective: Contributions to a general theory of motivation

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