From student to superhero: Situational primes shape future helping ☆

By Leif D. Nelson, Michael I. Norton. 2005

148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Russell E. Johnson
2. Mo Wang
3. Jeremy N. Bailenson
4. Junqi Shi
5. Adam M. Grant
6. Yihao Liu
7. V. Saroglou
8. Klodiana Lanaj

In Health

1. V. Saroglou
2. Isabelle Pichon
3. G. Boccato
4. Adam M. Grant
5. Mo Wang
6. T. Schnell
7. D. P. Sullins
8. W. Rowatt

In Sociology and Political Science

1. V. Saroglou
2. Isabelle Pichon
3. Yihao Liu
4. Yifan Song
5. Russell E. Johnson
6. G. Boccato
7. Mo Wang
8. Junqi Shi

Citations in the corpus

• Virtual Superheroes: Using Superpowers in Virtual Reality to Encourage Prosocial Behavior (2013, background): “For example, Nelson and Norton [15] found that participants who were primed with the category ‘‘superhero’’ were more likely to volunteer subsequently than participants in the control group.”
• A social mindfulness approach to understanding experienced customer mistreatment: A within-person field experiment (2017, background): “Indeed, research suggests that when prosocial activities are recalled, people become more committed to helping (Farmer & Van Dyne, 2010; Nelson & Norton, 2005) and may pay less attention to negative interpersonal events that contradict their other-orientedness, such as customer mistreatment.”
• Designing jobs to do good: Dimensions and psychological consequences of prosocial job characteristics (2008, background): “Contextual forces and situational cues have a powerful influence on the motivation to do good (e.g., Batson, 1990; Nelson & Norton, 2005 ).”
• Nonconscious influences of religion on prosociality: A priming study (2007, background): “…helping and prosocial behavior, there is evidence that the activation of these psychological realities (values: Verplanken & Holland, 2002; models: Nelson & Norton, 2005; knowledge structures such as stereotypes: Higgins, 1996; or self-activation: Utz, 2004) can lead to corresponding social…”
• Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference (2007, background): “Prosocial identity is the component of the self-concept concerned with helping and contributing; when it is activated, people experience their identities as oriented toward positively affecting others, and they are more likely to volunteer to help others (Nelson & Norton, 2005).”