ISSN:
1573-6644
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Psychology
Notes:
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.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01650601
