Helping Others, Warming Yourself: Altruistic Behaviors Increase Warmth Feelings of the Ambient Environment

Hu, Tian-Yi; Li, Jingyu; Jia, Huiyuan; Xie, Xiaofei

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01349

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“…SEB is a person's realization that they are capable of performing a self-sacrificial behaviour (Bandura, 1997;Hu, Li, Jia, & Xie, 2016). PC increases a person's perceptions of such capability (Bandura, 1994), through its presentation of performance desensitization, performance exposure, symbolic modelling, suggestion, exhortation, interpretive treatments, attribution, and relaxation (Bandura, Adams, & Beyer, 1977).…”

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Influencing altruistic tourist behaviour: Persuasive communication to affect attitudes and self‐efficacy beliefs

Shahzalal

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2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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This article studies the determinants of altruistic behaviour in a collectivistic country. A focus group discussion identified the determinants and their causal relationships. Partial least square and covariance‐based structural equation modelling provide similar results in 605 questionnaires, which support the model's fit. The tourists are likely to perform more altruistic behaviours if they are exposed to persuasive communication that enhances self‐efficacy beliefs, more than communication tapping into one's sustainability attitudes. The study shows the potential of focusing on altruistic messages in a collectivistic country (Bangladesh) in comparison to the individualistic messages typically shown to be more persuasive in Western countries.

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Influencing altruistic tourist behaviour: Persuasive communication to affect attitudes and self‐efficacy beliefs

Shahzalal

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2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…giving away the bigger pear)". Hu et al (2016) sought to address the question of whether the potential future reward received by an altruistic performer could be any positive internal reward. In the language of our model, the so-called positive internal reward could be effectively represented on an unoffered but fictional dimension.…”

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Worth-based choice: giving an offered smaller pear an even greater fictional value

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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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Choices between options represented in a multidimensional space, in which each dimension signifies a distinct attribute describing the objects, are presumably guided by the principle of value maximization. However, the current study assumes that in a real-world setting, those who are able to imagine things that do not actually exist could modify the multidimensional space by self-generating an unoffered but fictional dimension. We define the utility (Uv) assigned by the decision makers to the options on the offered/given dimension as value (v[x]) and the utility (Uw) on the self-generated/fictional dimension as worth (w[xc]). Our series of experiments demonstrated that an option with a greater value established strictly on that given set of dimensions might not necessarily be chosen (which contradicted the principle of value maximization). Choosing an option with less value (i.e. giving away the bigger pear) behavior can be described and explained by the “worth-based choice” approach, as people behave to select the option with the highest worth rather than that with the highest value. We are optimistic that the resulting findings will facilitate our understanding of the beauty of such a “one step further” choice and assist us in understanding the following: the ability to further generate a fictional dimension and to assign a delayed utility (worth) to the options on the fictional dimension, and to make a worth-based choice, which could eventually be taken as the operational definition to measure the degree of “fiction-generating ability”, as proposed by Harari (2014).

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“…Such behaviour is considered as altruistic if it is motivated by genuine willingness to be a beneficiary without expecting any benefits for oneself (Gerrand 1994;Manni 1995;Miller 2002;Sells 2003;Sque et al 2007;Costa et al 2009;Quinn et al 2013;Feigin et al 2014). Altruistic behaviours typically improve the welfare of the recipient at the cost of the performer's resources and energy (Switzer et al 1997;Hu et al 2016). Altruism may also be defined as a unselfish behaviour, which brings advantage to someone else, irrespective whether the cost is higher than the benefit for the well-doer who is motivated by concern for the well-being of others, or intrinsic values and goals not expecting any material or social rewards or to escape punishment (Bergstrom et al 2009;Singer 2015;Hartmann et al 2017;Kraut 2018).…”

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‘Be the match’. Predictors of decisions concerning registration in potential bone marrow donor registry in a group of Polish young adults as an example of prosocial behaviour

Tuszyńska-Bogucka

2019

Curr Psychol

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Most of the studies about donation decisions focus on some personality factors, self-esteem or some family characteristics as separate sources of influence and do not take into account interdependence of these variables. The study attempts to conceptualize and validate an integrative framework, based on SCT A. Bandura, incorporating personal, environmental and behavioural determinants of the decision to register as a potential bone marrow donor. The study hypothesizes and tests the interdependent variables model of personality traits, self-esteem, practical past prosocial behaviours and family functionality as the key determinants of the decision of registration as potential bone marrow donor (PBMD) on the sample of 305 Polish young adults aged 18-25 years. The study was conducted using Polish versions of the following questionnaires: TIPI by Gosling et al. for measurement of the Big Five personality traits, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES), PBQ (based on the Self-Report Altruism Scale by Rushton) by Moroń, and Family Apgar scale by Smilkstein for assessing family function. The results obtained due to using a hybrid data-mining' techniques LR and CART, allow the formulation of predictive equations defining the probability of making the decision to register as a potential bone marrow donor as a result of personality traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and self-esteem, as well as positive affect in family modelling and adaptation. However, the negative role of past prosocial behaviours, also demonstrated in research, requires further explanations. Although these methods may supplement the existing statistical models and contribute to the interpretation of factors of decision concerning the registration as a PBMD, further testing of the model according to the investigated variables requires the use of casual modelling methods in order to verify hypotheses concerning the occurrence of a specified structure of relationships between these variables.

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Helping Others, Warming Yourself: Altruistic Behaviors Increase Warmth Feelings of the Ambient Environment

Cited by 46 publications

References 55 publications

Influencing altruistic tourist behaviour: Persuasive communication to affect attitudes and self‐efficacy beliefs

Influencing altruistic tourist behaviour: Persuasive communication to affect attitudes and self‐efficacy beliefs

Worth-based choice: giving an offered smaller pear an even greater fictional value

‘Be the match’. Predictors of decisions concerning registration in potential bone marrow donor registry in a group of Polish young adults as an example of prosocial behaviour

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