Helping as a function of feeling state and nature of the helping behavior |
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| Authors: | Duncan Forest Margaret S. Clark Judson Mills Alice M. Isen |
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| Affiliation: | (1) University of Maryland, USA;(2) Pembroke State University, 28372 Pembroke, North Carolina;(3) Present address: Carnegie-Mellon University, USA;(4) Present address: the College Park campus of the University of Maryland, USA;(5) Present address: the Baltimore County campus of the University of Maryland, USA |
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| Abstract: | The proposition that positive feelings increase helping because they increase the perception of personal power implies that if the person prefers not to help, positive feelings would decrease helping. This was tested in an experiment that varied feelings and pleasantness of the helping task. False meter feedback was used to manipulate feelings, and an indirect check on the manipulation showed that it was effective in varying feelings. As expected from the notion that positive feelings allow the person to feel free to refuse to help, there was an interaction between feelings and pleasantness of the helping task; positive feelings produced less helping than neutral or negative feelings when the helping task was unpleasant.This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
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