Gratitude as moral sentiment: Emotion-guided cooperation in economic exchange.

DeSteno, David; Bartlett, Monica Y.; Baumann, Jolie; Williams, Lisa; Dickens, Leah

doi:10.1037/a0017883

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“…This then would likely increase subsequent generosity as participants in a good mood spread that good mood through generosity. Previous studies have supported this premise, demonstrating that inducing positive emotions like gratitude can increase giving in the laboratory [41].…”

Section: Positive Emotionality In Marathon Participationsupporting

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Charitable Sporting Events as a Context for Building Adolescent Generosity: Examining the Role of Religiousness and Spirituality

2016

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Abstract:Previous research demonstrates an association between religiousness, spirituality, and generosity in adolescents, but few studies have tested the mechanisms by which religion might facilitate the development of generosity in real-world contexts. In this paper, a theoretical model is presented describing the potential mechanisms by which engagement in transformational contexts (i.e., participating in charity marathon training) may lead to the development of generosity in adolescents. Participation in charity sporting events is theorized to increase generosity through both higher-order mechanisms, such as sanctification and the development of transcendent identity, and lower-order mechanisms, such as increased entitativity, positive emotions, and dissonance reduction. An empirical strategy for testing the model is presented; suggested methods for inquiry are longitudinal mixed method designs incorporating observations, questionnaires, and qualitative interviewing. Additionally, a case study of ongoing research on adolescents running with Team World Vision is described as an application of the model to an actual research context.

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Section: Positive Emotionality In Marathon Participationsupporting

confidence: 51%

Charitable Sporting Events as a Context for Building Adolescent Generosity: Examining the Role of Religiousness and Spirituality

2016

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“…Researchers have examined the social contagion effects of prosociality in experimental economic games, and found that generous allocations of resources could indeed spread from person to person (DeSteno, Bartlett, Baumann, Williams, & Dickens, 2010;Fowler & Christakis, 2010;Gray, Ward, & Norton, 2014). In an economic exchange game, for example, participants who had been helped by another gave more money to a stranger than those who had not been helped-a pay-it-forward effect (DeSteno et al, 2010).…”

Section: Who Spreads Prosociality?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In an economic exchange game, for example, participants who had been helped by another gave more money to a stranger than those who had not been helped-a pay-it-forward effect (DeSteno et al, 2010). In a multi-round economic game in which participants were constantly changing partners, giving more money to a partner instead of keeping it increased the partner's voluntary donations to others in subsequent rounds (Fowler & Christakis, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Clustering by well-being in workplace social networks: Homophily and social contagion.

Chancellor¹,

Layous²,

Margolis³

et al. 2017

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A functional analysis of prosociality considers how predispositions for prosocial behavior prompt, reinforce, and propagate kind behaviors in the real world. To examine the effects of practicing, receiving, and observing everyday prosociality-as well as the mechanisms underlying these effects-we randomly assigned employees in a Spanish corporate workplace (N=111) to be Givers, Receivers, and Controls. Givers practiced five acts of kindness for a personalized list of Receivers over 4 weeks. We found that Givers and Receivers mutually benefited in well-being in both the short-term (e.g., on weekly measures of competence and autonomy) and the long-term (e.g., Receivers became happier after 2 months, and Givers became less depressed and more satisfied with their lives and jobs). In addition, Givers' prosocial acts inspired others to act: Receivers paid their acts of kindness forward with 278% more prosocial behaviors than Controls. Our results reveal that practicing everyday prosociality is both emotionally reinforcing and contagious (inspiring kindness and generating hedonic rewards in others) and that receiving everyday prosociality is an unequivocally positive experience (which may further reinforce Givers' actions). Prosociality's benefits shed light on its surprising ubiquity in humanity compared with our closest evolutionary cousins.

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“…As stated previously, experiencing gratitude directly facilitates recognition of a kind act and repayment of the favour. This has been illustrated in controlled lab settings in which feeling grateful leads one to reciprocate with costly helping behaviours (Bartlett & DeSteno, 2006;Tsang, 2006) and to act cooperatively in economic exchanges (DeSteno et al 2010). Hence in our study we wanted to search for the relationship between servant leadership and feelings of gratitude in an organization.…”

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Effect Of Gratitude In The Relationship Between Servant Leadership And Organizational Identification

Narcıkara¹,

Zehir²

2017

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Positive psychology and its organizational reflection on organizational behaviour, namely positive organizational behaviour, underlines the importance of positive forms of leadership in forming positive organizational climates. Servant leadership is one of the most important positive forms of leadership that effects positive feelings like gratitude and results in organizational identification. Moreover, gratitude can effect as a mediator in the relationship between servant leadership and organizational identification. To test the propositions, a field survey using questionnaires was conducted on 173 companies. In this study 503 usable surveys were applied. The obtained data from the questionnaires were analysed through the SPSS statistical packaged software. After the validation of measures, a series of regression analysis was conducted to test the hypotheses and to define the direction of relations. Analyses results highlighted the relationship among the servant leadership, gratitude and organizational identification. Findings have found to be consistent with the proposition that gratitude acts as a mediator in the relationship between servant leadership and organizational identification.

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Gratitude as moral sentiment: Emotion-guided cooperation in economic exchange.

Cited by 253 publications

References 23 publications

Charitable Sporting Events as a Context for Building Adolescent Generosity: Examining the Role of Religiousness and Spirituality

Charitable Sporting Events as a Context for Building Adolescent Generosity: Examining the Role of Religiousness and Spirituality

Clustering by well-being in workplace social networks: Homophily and social contagion.

Effect Of Gratitude In The Relationship Between Servant Leadership And Organizational Identification

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