The effect of shame on prosocial behavior tendency toward a stranger

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to examine the effect of different types of shame on prosocial behavior tendency to different help-seekers. METHODS: A total of 120 participants were randomly assigned to a neutral mood condition, a public shame or a private shame condition. RESULTS: All participants rat...

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Autores principales: Li, Saiqi, Wang, Liusheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9753423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36522690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-01021-1
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description BACKGROUND: This study aimed to examine the effect of different types of shame on prosocial behavior tendency to different help-seekers. METHODS: A total of 120 participants were randomly assigned to a neutral mood condition, a public shame or a private shame condition. RESULTS: All participants rated their willingness to help a benefactor and a stranger in an everyday helping situation and a money-donating situation after emotion-induction. The study found a higher willingness of participants in the public shame group to help strangers than those in neutral mood and private shame groups. CONCLUSION: These findings support a facilitation effect of public shame on prosocial behavior tendency toward strangers, indicating an effect of restoring motive of shame on social interaction. The results are further discussed in light of the functionalism of shame.
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spelling pubmed-97534232022-12-16 The effect of shame on prosocial behavior tendency toward a stranger Li, Saiqi Wang, Liusheng BMC Psychol Research BACKGROUND: This study aimed to examine the effect of different types of shame on prosocial behavior tendency to different help-seekers. METHODS: A total of 120 participants were randomly assigned to a neutral mood condition, a public shame or a private shame condition. RESULTS: All participants rated their willingness to help a benefactor and a stranger in an everyday helping situation and a money-donating situation after emotion-induction. The study found a higher willingness of participants in the public shame group to help strangers than those in neutral mood and private shame groups. CONCLUSION: These findings support a facilitation effect of public shame on prosocial behavior tendency toward strangers, indicating an effect of restoring motive of shame on social interaction. The results are further discussed in light of the functionalism of shame. BioMed Central 2022-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9753423/ /pubmed/36522690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-01021-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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