Counseling, Guidance, and the Morality of Help-Giving

This chapter reviews social psychological research on help giving and helping relations from the 1950s until today. The first section considers the conditions under which people are likely to help others, personality dispositions that characterize helpful individuals, and motivational and attributional antecedents of helpfulness. The second section looks at long-term consequences of help and examines help in the context of enduring and emotionally significant relationships. Research has shown that in the long run help can increase psychological and physical well-being for helpers but discourage self-reliance for recipients. The third section analyzes helping from intra- and intergroup perspectives, considering how its provision can contribute to helpers’ reputations within a group or promote the positive social identity of in-groups relative to out-groups. Help is thus conceptualized as a negotiation between the fundamental psychological needs for belongingness and independence. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Open Source Technical Support: A Look at Peer Help-Giving

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06) ◽

10.1109/hicss.2006.370 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

V. Singh ◽

M.B. Twidale ◽

D. Rathi

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Technical Support ◽

Help Giving ◽

Peer Help

The belief to have fixed or malleable traits and help giving: implicit theories and sequential social influence techniques

Polish Psychological Bulletin ◽

10.2478/s10059-009-0009-z ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Malgorzata Gamian-Wilk ◽

Kinga Lachowicz-Tabaczek

Keyword(s):

Social Influence ◽

Implicit Theories ◽

Help Giving

Investigating Help-Giving Behavior in a Cross-Platform Learning Environment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence in Education ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-23204-7_2 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 14-25

Author(s):

Ishrat Ahmed ◽

Areej Mawasi ◽

Shang Wang ◽

Ruth Wylie ◽

Yoav Bergner ◽

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Keyword(s):

Learning Environment ◽

Help Giving ◽

Cross Platform

Effect of Legitimizing Small Contributions and Labeling Potential Donors as “Helpers” on Responses to a Direct Mail Solicitation for Charity

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1992.71.3.923 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 71 (3) ◽

pp. 923-928 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

William DeJong ◽

Arvo J. Oopik

Keyword(s):

Fund Raising ◽

Direct Mail ◽

Bumper Sticker ◽

Help Giving

Residents of a small Vermont town received one of four mail solicitations from a statewide charity drive. In one condition, designed to legitimize small contributions, the recipients were reminded at the end of the written appeal that “even a penny will help.” In a second condition, the recipients were told that they, like other residents of their town, were known to be concerned about others and received a small gift to reinforce that “helper” label, a bumper sticker reading “I Help Out.” In a second labeling condition, the recipients were told they were known to be proud of their state and received a bumper sticker to reinforce that label. Those in a control condition received a customary direct mail solicitation. Analysis showed that labeling potential donors as “helpers” did not substantially increase donations. Legitimizing small contributions tended to lower contributions, although the finding was not statistically significant. Techniques that work in other contexts to increase help-giving or compliance with requests must be applied cautiously in the context of direct mail fund-raising.

Feelings Toward the Poor and Beliefs About the Causes of Poverty: The Role of Affective-Cognitive Consistency in Help-Giving

The Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1080/00223980.2012.718721 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 147 (6) ◽

pp. 517-539 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Michael J. Tagler ◽

Catherine Cozzarelli

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Consistency ◽

The Poor ◽

Help Giving ◽

Causes Of Poverty

Help-Giving Scale

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t48681-000 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

P. Poortvliet ◽

Céline Darnon

Keyword(s):

Help Giving