Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior
Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797609359882
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发表时间：
2010-03-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Fessler, Daniel M. T.
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作者：
Schnall, Simone;Roper, Jean;Fessler, Daniel M. T.
人们假设，通过目睹他人做好事而产生的提升感会激发帮助他人的愿望。然而，尽管人们对亲社会行为的决定因素越来越感兴趣，但只有有限的证据表明海拔会导致利他行为的增加。在两个实验中，我们测试了海拔和帮助行为之间的关系。在测量帮助行为之前，我们测量了参与者在海拔诱导条件和控制条件下的海拔，以确定是否目睹利他行为引起海拔。在实验1中，经历海拔的参与者更有可能自愿参加随后的无偿研究，而不是中立状态的参与者。在实验2中，经历情绪高涨的参与者帮助实验者完成一项乏味的任务的时间大约是经历欢笑或中性情绪状态的参与者的两倍。此外，提升的感觉，而不是娱乐或幸福的感觉，预测了帮助的数量。总之，这些结果提供了证据，证明目睹另一个人的利他行为会激发提升，这是一种离散的情绪，反过来会导致利他主义的切实增加。
Feelings of elevation, elicited by witnessing another person perform a good deed, have been hypothesized to motivate a desire to help others. However, despite growing interest in the determinants of prosocial behavior, there is only limited evidence that elevation leads to increases in altruistic behavior. In two experiments, we tested the relationship between elevation and helping behavior. Prior to measuring helping behavior, we measured elevation among participants in an elevation-inducing condition and control conditions in order to determine whether witnessing altruistic behavior elicited elevation. In Experiment 1, participants experiencing elevation were more likely to volunteer for a subsequent unpaid study than were participants in a neutral state. In Experiment 2, participants experiencing elevation spent approximately twice as long helping the experimenter with a tedious task as participants experiencing mirth or a neutral emotional state. Further, feelings of elevation, but not feelings of amusement or happiness, predicted the amount of helping. Together, these results provide evidence that witnessing another person's altruistic behavior elicits elevation, a discrete emotion that, in turn, leads to tangible increases in altruism.