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The Effects of Perspective Taking on Motivations for Helping: Still No Evidence for Altruism
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To investigate the existence of true altruism, the authors assessed the link between empathic concern and helping by (a) employing an experimental perspective-taking paradigm used previously to demonstrate empathy-associated helping and (b) assessing the empathy-helping relationship while controlling for a range of relevant, well-measured nonaltruistic motivations. Consistent with previous research, the authors found a significant zero-order relationship between helping and empathic concern, the purported motivator of true altruism. This empathy-helping relationship disappeared, however, when nonaltruistic motivators (oneness and negative affect) were taken into account: Only the nonaltruistic factors of oneness (merged identity with the victim) and negative affect mediated helping, whereas empathic concern did not. Evidence for true altruism remains elusive.
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- Authors
- Maner, J. K., Luce, C. L., Neuberg, S. L., Cialdini, R. B., Brown, S., & Sagarin, B. J.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-11
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1601-1610
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2170870614
- Cited by
- 351
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 4.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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