Elation, depression, and helping behavior.

Aderman, David

doi:10.1037/h0033366

Cited by 163 publications

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“…In an experimental context, induced positive moods have been shown to bring about helping in a variety of forms, including making a charitable contribution (Cunningham, Steinberg, & Grev, 1980;Isen, 1970), sharing with others (Rosenhan, Underwood, & Moore, 1974), donating blood (O'Malley & Andrews, 1983), or volunteering one's time (Aderman, 1972;Baron & Bronfen, 1994;Baron et al, 1992;Berkowitz, 1987;Isen & Levin, 1972;Rosenhan, Salovey, & Hargis, 1981). Such evidence bodes well for happy employees and corroborates the crosssectional evidence that they are more likely to help others in a work context.…”

Section: Experimental Evidence: Does Happiness Lead To Success In Thesupporting

confidence: 61%

Does Happiness Promote Career Success?

Boehm

Lyubomirsky

2008

Journal of Career Assessment

417

318

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Past research has demonstrated a relationship between happiness and workplace success. For example, compared with their less happy peers, happy people earn more money, display superior performance, and perform more helpful acts. Researchers have often assumed that an employee is happy and satisfied because he or she is successful. In this article, the authors review evidence in support of an alternative hypothesis-namely, that happiness is a source of why particular employees are more successful than others. To this end, the authors consider evidence from three types of studies-cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental-that relate happiness to various work outcomes. Taken together, the evidence suggests that happiness is not only correlated with workplace success but that happiness often precedes measures of success and that induction of positive affect leads to improved workplace outcomes.

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Section: Experimental Evidence: Does Happiness Lead To Success In Thesupporting

confidence: 61%

Does Happiness Promote Career Success?

Boehm

Lyubomirsky

2008

Journal of Career Assessment

417

318

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“…Some studies are able to address this question directly, as they include both positive affect and negative affect as variables or manipulations. For example, in the helping literature, experimental inductions of positive affect produce increased prosocial behavior, whereas inductions of negative affect do not necessarily decrease helping (e.g., Aderman, 1972;Berkowitz, 1987;Isen & Levin, 1972;Rosenhan et al, 1974). Regarding social interactions (e.g., Cunningham, 1988aCunningham, , 1988b, creativity (e.g., Hirt et al, 1996;Richards, 1994), and evaluations of strangers (e.g., Baron, 1987Baron, , 1993, it appears that positive mood inductions do not produce symmetrical effects.…”

Section: Causality and Possible Third Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both the inductions of positive mood and the assessments of helping have taken numerous forms in these studies. For example, happy moods, in comparison with sad or neutral moods, have promoted such behaviors as contributing money to charity (Cunningham, Steinberg, & Grev, 1980;Isen, 1970) or to needy children (Rosenhan, Underwood, & Moore, 1974), donating blood (O'Malley & Andrews, 1983), and volunteering for an extra experiment (Aderman, 1972;Baron & Bronfen, 1994;Baron et al, 1992;Berkowitz, 1987;Isen & Levin, 1972;Rosenhan, Salovey, & Hargis, 1981).…”

Section: Prosocial Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?

Lyubomirsky¹,

King²,

Diener³

2005

Psychological Bulletin

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166

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Numerous studies show that happy individuals are successful across multiple life domains, including marriage, friendship, income, work performance, and health. The authors suggest a conceptual model to account for these findings, arguing that the happiness-success link exists not only because success makes people happy, but also because positive affect engenders success. Three classes of evidence-crosssectional, longitudinal, and experimental-are documented to test their model. Relevant studies are described and their effect sizes combined meta-analytically. The results reveal that happiness is associated with and precedes numerous successful outcomes, as well as behaviors paralleling success. Furthermore, the evidence suggests that positive affect-the hallmark of well-being-may be the cause of many of the desirable characteristics, resources, and successes correlated with happiness. Limitations, empirical issues, and important future research questions are discussed.

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“…This relationship has been well-documented through correlational methods (Aderman, 1972;Cunningham, Steinberg, & Grev, 1980;Lucas, 2001;Rosenhan, Underwood, & Moore, 1974;Williams & Shiaw, 1999) and, more recently, with experimental design (Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, 2005). For example, Lyubomirsky and colleagues showed that students assigned to perform five random acts of kindness a week for 6 weeks were happier than those in a no-action control group.…”

Section: The Relationship Between Money and Happinessmentioning

confidence: 99%