Prosocial Behavior as Affected by Eye Contact, Touch, and Voice Expression

Goldman, Morton; Fordyce, J. S.

doi:10.1080/00224545.1983.9924474

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“…This was explained by the positive mood induced by the smile of the first interaction. These results were consistent with one study that tied touch, eye contact and voice expression to positive mood and helping behavior (Goldman & Fordyce, 1983).…”

Section: The Influence Of Music On Cultural Change and Social Movementssupporting

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Music and Conflict Resolution: Can a Music and Story Centered Workshop Enhance Empathy?

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2000

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The Story and Song Centered Pedagogy (SSCP) is a workshop that uses songs, stories and reflective questioning to increase empathy. This preliminary study tested the prediction that being exposed to the SSCP would increase empathy using, the Emotional Concern (EC) and Perspective Taking (PT) subscales of the renowned Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) (Davis, 1990). Subjects self-reported their answers to the IRI before and after undergoing the SSCP intervention. Comparing their pre and post intervention results, no statistically significant changes were noticed for the EC and PT scales (p-value = 0.7093 for EC; p-value = 0.6328 for PT). These results stand in direct tension with the anecdotal evidence gathered from 10 years of action research that shows that the SSCP impacts audiences' ability to empathize. This opens the door for additional research with more rigorous methodology and a larger sample size which will allow for more interpretative analysis. These results also probe the concern about whether the IRI is the most suitable tool to quantitatively measure the empathetic responses caused by the SSCP and evidenced by action research.ii

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Music and Conflict Resolution: Can a Music and Story Centered Workshop Enhance Empathy?

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2000

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“…They nevertheless suggest that the touching patterns and the encoding of the corresponding hedonic sensations show the necessary plasticity for changing touching behavior under the course of a relationship. Additionally, prior behavioral work suggests a causal role of social touch in modulating affective bonds, showing that touching leads to a more positive evaluation of the toucher (9, 10, 24) and increases prosocial behavior (11,12,25,26). Regulation of the relationship-specific touch patterns could thus be a candidate mechanism in governing the emotional closeness between different individuals in one's social network.…”

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Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans

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“…Because touch may be used to persuade (Jones and Yarborough, 1985), obtain compliance with requests (Willis and Hamm, 1980), or generate prosocial behavior (Goldman and Fordyce, 1983), one way to conceptualize touch is as an influence tactic. If touch is conceptualized as an influence tactic, then supervisors who use touch effectively should demonstrate greater interpersonal influence and greater apparent sincerity.…”

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Exploring touch as a positive workplace behavior

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Whereas most research has focused on the negative aspects of touch in the workplace (i.e. sexual harassment), this study focuses upon the positive use of touch. In an effort to explain individual differences in the use of workplace touch, three sequential studies are used to introduce the concepts of workplace touch self-efficacy and workplace touch initiation anxiety. In Study 1 we develop scales to assess the constructs. Study 2 provides an initial examination of the construct validity of the measures developed in Study 1. Results of Study 3 indicate that supervisor reports of touch self-efficacy and physiological touch anxiety are related to subordinate reports of supervisor touch. Additionally, results show that supervisor use of touch is related to several indicators of supervisor social effectiveness. Finally, sex of the supervisor appears to play a role in workplace touch as female supervisors report less touch anxiety, greater touch self-efficacy and more use of touch than male supervisors.

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Prosocial Behavior as Affected by Eye Contact, Touch, and Voice Expression

Cited by 51 publications

References 15 publications

Music and Conflict Resolution: Can a Music and Story Centered Workshop Enhance Empathy?

Music and Conflict Resolution: Can a Music and Story Centered Workshop Enhance Empathy?

Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans

Exploring touch as a positive workplace behavior

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