scholarly journals Brief Mindfulness Instruction Increases Prosocial Helping of an Ostracized Racial Outgroup Member

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Berry ◽  
Catherine Wall ◽  
Athena Hensel Cairo ◽  
Paul E. Plonski ◽  
Kirk Warren Brown
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relation ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Mindfulness Training ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Context

Two experiments tested whether brief instruction in mindfulness increased helping behavior toward an ostracized racial outgroup member by enhancing empathic concern. In Study 1, brief mindfulness instruction, relative to active and inactive control conditions, increased helping behavior toward an ostracized racial outgroup member in a private (but not in a public) context. In Study 2, which involved greater anonymity, mindfulness instruction increased both private and public helping behavior toward an ostracized racial outgroup member relative to the two control conditions. Importantly, measured empathic concern accounted for a portion of the variance in the causal relation between mindfulness and interracial helping behavior in Study 2. Together these studies suggest that brief mindfulness training increases interracial prosocial responsiveness in a digitally mediated context, particularly when personal anonymity was greater.

Helping Behavior, Dispositional Empathic Concern, and the Principle of Care

2010 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Ottoni Wilhelm ◽  
René Bekkers
Keyword(s):  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Empathic Concern

Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062110530
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Berry ◽  
Catherine S. J. Wall ◽  
Justin D. Tubbs ◽  
Fadel Zeidan ◽  
Kirk Warren Brown
Keyword(s):  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Mindfulness Training ◽  
Trait Mindfulness ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
First Time ◽  
Momentary Assessment

A randomized controlled trial tested whether mindfulness training would increase lab-based and in vivo spontaneous helping behaviors toward racial outgroup members. First, across conditions, those scoring higher in baseline trait mindfulness showed higher levels of preintervention lab-based and ecological momentary assessment (EMA)-based helping behavior. Next, short-term (4-day) training in mindfulness, relative to a well-matched sham meditation training, increased interracial helping behavior in a lab-based simulation. Finally, among people scoring lower in a basic form of trait mindfulness at baseline—that is, with greater room for improvement—mindfulness training predicted higher postintervention in vivo helping behavior reported via EMA. However, neither training condition alone attenuated preferential helping toward racial ingroup members. These findings indicate, for the first time, that mindfulness and its training fosters helping behavior toward strangers and acquaintances regardless of their racial ingroup or outgroup status, but preferential helping of racial ingroup members remains.

Helping behavior induced by empathic concern attenuates anterior cingulate activation in response to others’ distress

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Kawamichi ◽  
Kazufumi Yoshihara ◽  
Sho K. Sugawara ◽  
Masahiro Matsunaga ◽  
Kai Makita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Anterior Cingulate

Empathic concern and helping behavior: Egoism or altruism?

1988 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A Schroeder ◽  
John F Dovidio ◽  
Mark E Sibicky ◽  
Linda L Matthews ◽  
Judith L Allen
Keyword(s):  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Empathic Concern

Interactive effects of dispositional empathic concern and message framing on international relief campaigns

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1281-1292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungjo Lee ◽  
Jaehee Cho
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Message Framing ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Issue Involvement ◽  
Child Hunger ◽  
Emotional Concern ◽  
Loss Framing ◽  
International Relief

We investigated the interactive effects of dispositional empathic concern (DEC), which occurs when a person feels emotional concern about others in need, and message framing (gain vs. loss), which is used to persuade people to engage in helping behavior, on international relief campaigns. Participants were 161 university students who completed measures of DEC, issue involvement, and their previously held attitude toward international relief activities at the first stage. After 7–10 days they read a stimulus framing message focused on international relief campaigns against child hunger, and then rated message attitudes, intention to support children in need, and perceived manipulation intent. Results showed that there was an interaction effect between DEC and framing on responses to messages advocating international relief activities. Further, this interaction was mainly the result of gain, rather than loss, framing, with more favorable responses elicited from individuals with greater DEC.

I’M SO ANGRY I COULD HELP YOU: MORAL OUTRAGE AS A DRIVER OF VICTIM COMPENSATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik W. Thulin ◽  
Cristina Bicchieri
Keyword(s):  
Social Norm ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Moral Rule ◽  
Moral Outrage ◽  
Trust Games ◽  
Victim Compensation

Abstract:Recent behavioral economics studies have shown that third parties compensate players in Dictator, Ultimatum, and Trust games. However, there are almost no studies about what drives third parties to compensate victims in such games. It can be argued that compensation is a form of helping; and helping behavior, in a variety of forms, has been widely researched, especially with regard to motivators. Previous work on helping behavior has focused on empathic concern as a primary driver. In sharp contrast, anger is often seen as an antisocial motivator resulting in aggression. However, other research has shown that moral outrage, anger evoked by the violation of a moral rule or a social norm, can lead to the punishment of a perpetrator, often described as altruistic or pro-social punishment. Some of the motivations for pro-social punishment, namely a concern for justice or the restoration of community values, can also be realized through victim compensation. We therefore propose the hypothesis that moral outrage leads to compensating behavior above and beyond what is predicted by empathic concern, but only when a social norm has been violated. We test this hypothesis in two studies, both of which use modified trust games in which the investor experiences a loss due either to a social norm violation or some other cause. Study 1 shows that trait moral outrage predicts third-party compensatory behavior above and beyond empathic concern, but only when a social norm is violated. To better understand the causal mechanism, Study 2 directly manipulated moral outrage, showing again that moral outrage leads to compensation, but only when a social norm is violated.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS INTERACTION MODELS IN THE SPHERE OF VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
pp. 116-121
Author(s):  
Elena Vladimirovna ULYANOVA
Keyword(s):  
Public Organizations ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Interaction Models ◽  
The Public ◽  
Classical State ◽  
Corporate Volunteering ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public And Private Sector

The issue of institutionalization of the volunteer movement in Russia in the context of consideration of such forms as: social and cultural partnership, corporate volunteering, cooperation. Social and cultural partnership in the field of volunteerism is characterized as a constructive cooperation between three major sectors: public, private and public organizations. The public and private sector interaction models in the field of volunteer activities (classical, state, self-organization, etc.) are characterized. The main directions of volunteer movement development, in which a special role is given to the state structures and civil society interaction system: event volunteering, social volunteering, cultural and educational volunteering, medical volunteering, environmental volunteering, silver volunteering, inclusive volunteering. Attention is focused on corporate volunteering, which is just beginning to develop on the territory of the Russian Federation and pursues the goal of spreading the best volunteer social and cultural actions to promote socially significant volunteer activities of the company’s staff. Corporate volunteering is defined as voluntary and gratuitous activity of employees of the organization on the basis of their initiative participation in the practice of “helping behavior”. The analysis of the leading domestic and foreign volunteer practices implemented on the basis of various models of intersectoral social interaction aimed at the development of social initiatives of the population is presented.

The Relationship Between System Justification and Perspective-Taking and Empathy

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Li ◽  
John A. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
White Person ◽  
The Relationship

Four studies tested the hypotheses that system-justifying beliefs will be negatively associated with perspective-taking (PT) and empathic concern (EC) and this negative relationship will be exacerbated when system-justifying people encounter information that challenges system-justifying stereotypes. System justification and PT and EC were negatively associated at the dispositional level (Study 1). Experimentally increased PT decreased system justification through increased EC (Study 2) whereas experimentally increased system justification decreased PT and EC (Study 3). Moderation analyses indicated that when exposed to status-quo-inconsistent information (e.g., a Black vs. White person and/or a woman vs. man of high socioeconomic status), system-endorsing people were less likely to engage in PT (Study 4). There was no effect of system justification on actual helping behavior.

scholarly journals Self-presentation moderates correspondence between implicit and explicit attitudes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Attitudes ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Explicit Attitudes ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Attitude Measures ◽  
Public Context ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Implicit And Explicit Attitudes

It is a psychological truism that some elements of the mind are unavailable to conscious introspection. Recent research suggests that attitudes exist as entities that one can reflect upon and self-report (explicit attitudes), and also as entities that exist outside of conscious awareness or control (implicit attitudes). The nature of the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes is not understood. One factor thought to distinguish implicit and explicit attitudes is the latter’s greater vulnerability to self-presentation demands. Specifically, relationships between implicit and explicit attitudes may be maximized when self-presentational demands are low (private reporting) versus high (public reporting). In a single session, participants reported attitudes in both a private and public context and completed implicit attitude measures. A mediational test showed that correspondence between implicit attitudes and public attitudes was completely mediated by private attitudes. These data suggest that self-presentation is one factor involved in the prediction of implicit-explicit correspondence.

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