The joys of helping: Focus of attention mediates the impact of positive affect on altruism.

Rosenhan, D. L., Salovey, Peter, Hargis, Kenneth·1981·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOI 10.1037//0022-3514.40.5.899

Cited by (16)

  1. The benefits of frequent positive affect: Does happiness lead to success?
    Lyubomirsky, Sonja, King, Laura, Diener, Ed · 2005 · Psychological Bulletin
  2. The relation of empathy to prosocial and related behaviors
    Eisenberg, Nancy, Miller, Paul A. · 1987 · Psychological Bulletin
  3. Prosocial Organizational Behaviors
    Brief, Arthur P., Motowidlo, Stephan J. · 1986 · The Academy of Management Review
  4. Emotions and leadership: The role of emotional intelligence
    George, Jennifer M. · 2000 · Human Relations
  5. Feeling good^doing good: A conceptual analysis of the mood at work^organizational spontaneity relationship.
    George, Jennifer M., Brief, Arthur P. · 1992 · Psychological Bulletin

See all 183

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The joys of helping: Focus of attention mediates the impact of positive affect on altruism. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1037//0022-3514.40.5.899
The paper
Rosenhan, D. L., Salovey, P., & Hargis, K. (1981). The joys of helping: Focus of attention mediates the impact of positive affect on altruism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.40.5.899

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.