Social anxiety, emotion, and helping behavior
Tóm tắt
The present study tested the hypothesis that while moderately socially anxious persons would demonstrate enhanced helping activity following the perpetration or observation of harm, low socially anxious individuals would not. This hypothesis was supported, suggesting that harm-produced helping is emotionally mediated. A self-report MACL measure of mood states, however, failed to reveal consistent mood differences among conditions, leading to speculation concerning a possible confounding factor in the use of self-report measures of unpleasant moods. Finally, many of the data corroborated Lykken's description of social anxiety, which seems an important trait in the prediction of altruism.
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