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The effect of prosocial priming in the presence of bystanders.

2013

This study investigated the influence of priming and bystander apathy on helping behavior. After priming prosociality through a scrambled sentences test, participants encountered a woman who dropped the books she was carrying. Helping behavior in bystander and no-bystander conditions was tested. The results showed that people in a prosocial-prime condition were more likely to help than people in a neutral-prime condition, and that the effect of priming persists even in the presence of bystanders.

AdultMalePsychological TestsPriming Prosocial behavior Bystander effectSocial PsychologyHelping behaviorHelping BehaviorDevelopmental psychologyYoung AdultProsocial behaviorBystander effectmedicineHumansApathyFemalemedicine.symptomPsychologySettore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia SocialePriming (psychology)Social psychologyThe Journal of social psychology
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The effect of social norms and the presence of bystanders on altruistic behavior

2016

In this chapter, prosocial behavior will be analyzed from a social psychology point of view, examining the theoretical contributions of the past ten years and highlighting the various interpretations that have been proposed. Specifically, the focus will be on the analysis of the motivations that characterize a person who behaves altruistically. Theoretical models that will be examined include those that consider the possibility of a genuine altruistic motivation, as well as those that hypothesize that true altruism does not exist. In fact, it will be shown how the motivation behind altruistic behavior has been interpreted differently by social psychologists as being either intrinsically ego…

Settore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia Socialealtruistic motivation Bystander Effect
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Priming Effects on Commitment to Help and on Real Helping Behavior

2014

Years of research on bystander apathy have demonstrated that the physical presence of others can reduce the tendency to help individuals needing assistance. Recent research on the implicit bystander effect has suggested that simply imagining the presence of others can lead to less helping behavior on a subsequent unrelated task. The present study was designed to contribute to previous findings on the implicit bystander effect by demonstrating these effects on commitment to help and on real helping behavior, rather than simply on intentions to help. Studies 1a and 1b demonstrate that merely priming participants with the construct of being in a group at Time 1 created significantly less commi…

Social PsychologyHelping behaviorReal helping behavior bystander apathy implicit bystander effectTask (project management)Bystander effectmedicineApathymedicine.symptomConstruct (philosophy)PsychologyPriming (psychology)Social psychologySettore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia SocialeApplied Psychology
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