Visualized prosocial behavior and emotion in late life
| Autor: | Steven Pirutinsky, Debaki Chakrabarti, Elizabeth Midlarsky, Florette Cohen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Altruism Causality 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Prosocial behavior Action (philosophy) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Big Five personality traits Psychology Social psychology Social responsibility Negative emotion General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Positive Psychology. 13:485-493 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9779 1743-9760 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17439760.2017.1315646 |
| Popis: | Correlational research suggests that among older adults prosociality relates to positive emotions; yet causality remains unclear. We conducted an experiment to investigate whether visualizing a prosocial action would experience enhanced positive and lower negative emotion, and whether this would be particularly true for those with certain altruistic personality traits. Participants aged sixty and above were primed with a prosocial (helping a needy stranger), social (going out with friends), or neutral (walking down the street) induction. Results indicated that positive affect was highest among those who visualized a prosocial interaction, and that this effect was strongest among those higher in social responsibility. In contrast, less altruistically oriented participants reported higher negative affect in the prosocial condition. Thus, while prosociality promoted positive affect particularly among the socially responsible, it led to increased negative affect among those lower in altruistic orienta... |
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