| Autor: |
Ross, Abraham S., Wilson, Pauline |
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Journal of Social Psychology; Jun1972, Vol. 87 Issue 1, p83-88, 6p |
| Abstrakt: |
An experiment was done to determine the effect of a person's intentions and the utility of his actions on judgments of him. The subject, while engaged in a multiple-choice problem-solving task which was either important or not important to her classroom grade, was given unsolicited help by a confederate. In one condition the confederate gave the subject correct answers (Good Intent), and in the other she gave the subject incorrect answers (Bad Intent). Manipulation of the alternative answers available to the subject made the information either useful or useless. The results indicate that when the situation was unimportant, it did not matter whether the confederate's information was useful or not, nor what her intentions were; since the situation was unimportant the helping was not reciprocated. When the situation was important reciprocation occurred if the help given was useful and if the person offered it with good intentions. If both these conditions were not satisfied reciprocation did not occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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