Committing Altruism under the Cloak of Self-Interest: The Exchange Fiction ☆ ☆☆

By J. G. Holmes, Dale T. Miller, M. Lerner. 2002

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Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Experimental research on just-world theory: problems, developments, and future challenges. (2005, background): “…points in this review, even some apparently opposing behaviors (e.g., compassion for vs. derogation of an innocent victim), apparently self-interested actions (see Holmes et al., 2002), and seemingly unfair behavior (see Hafer & Olson, 2003; Stroessner & Heuer, 1996), may mask a desire for justice.”
Challenging the Norm of Self-Interest: Minority Influence and Transitions to Helping Norms in Work Units (2012, background): “That is, when unit members assume that others subscribe to norms of self-interest, they mask and disguise their own motivations and behaviors as self-serving, which encourages others to do the same (Holmes et al., 2002).”
Motivating millennials to engage in charitable causes through social media (2014, background): “Conversely, research also indicates that a simple self-interest model is inadequate for explaining human behavior and, although economic theory attributes the motives behind people’s actions to be primarily self-interest, they also may act out of pure altruism because they care about principles of j”
The Relationship Between Perceived Violation of Social Norms and Social Control: Situational Factors Influencing the Reaction to Deviance (2005, background): “Given that people are motivated primarily by self-interest ( Holmes, Miller, & Lerner, 2002 ), they feel more personally implicated when they have a stake in the cause than when they do not.”
When public recognition for charitable giving backfires: The role of independent self-construal (2018, methodology): “Second, this research contributes to work on the norm of self-interest (Holmes, Miller, and Lerner 2002; Miller 1999; Ratner and Miller 1998), which shows that individuals are often hesitant to engage in prosocial behaviors unless they can justify that such behaviors benefit the self.”
Psychological Antecedents to Socially Responsible Behavior (2008, unknown): “Recent evidence suggests that hedonistic individuals refrain from assisting others when they are unable to justify that behavior from a perspective of self-interest (Holmes et al., 2002).”
Charities Can Increase the Effectiveness of Donation Appeals by Using a Morally Congruent Positive Emotion (2019, background): “However, many charitable donations are also characterized by exchange norms (Holmes, Miller, and Lerner 2002; Johnson and Grimm 2010).”