The Effects of Perspective Taking on Motivations for Helping: Still No Evidence for Altruism

By Jon K. Maner, Carol L. Luce, Steven L. Neuberg, Robert B. Cialdini, Stephanie L. Brown, Brad J. Sagarin. 2002

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Subfields: Health, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Psychology of Charitable Donations to Disaster Victims and Beyond (2015, background): “Evidence for both the egoistic and altruistic argument has been amassed (e.g., Batson et al., 1981, 1989; Maner et al., 2002).”
When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion. (2012, methodology): “To accomplish this aim, researchers began by modifying an existing pictorial methodology that had been developed to assess attachment in close relationships: the Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale (IOS; Aron, Aron, & Smollan, 1992; Aron, Aron, Tudor, & Nelson, 1991; see also Cialdini, Brown, Lewis”
Perspective-Taking and Self-Other Overlap: Fostering Social Bonds and Facilitating Social Coordination (2005, methodology): “In the most utilized paradigm, participants listen to a randomly selected interview ostensibly from a local radio station and are given specific instructions on how to listen to the tape (Batson, Early, & Salvarani, 1997; Maner et al., 2002; Vescio et al., 2003).”
Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008, background): “There has been debate as to whether empathy facilitates helping through activation of a genuinely altruistic goal (the empathy–altruism hypothesis) or through the activation of some other, more egoistic goal (Batson et al., 1989; Batson & Shaw, 1991; Maner et al., 2002; Schaller & Cialdini, 1988).”
The Physiology of Moral Sentiments (2011, unknown): “Perhaps not surprisingly, perspectivetaking and reduced social distance increased reported empathy and willingness to help others (though the motivations for this are in question; Maner et al., 2002).”
The Effect of Embodied Experiences on Self-Other Merging, Attitude, and Helping Behavior (2013, background): “Earlier studies (Cialdini et al., 1997; Maner et al., 2002) have evidenced the importance of perceived oneness with the target in eliciting helping intentions; that is, these studies argued that people help based on selfish motivations and that people were only willing to help when they felt high…”
Similarity and Nurturance: Two Possible Sources of Empathy for Strangers (2005, methodology): “Cialdini et al. (1997) and Maner et al. (2002) had used Items 3 and 4 (worded to fit their research context) to assess perceived “oneness” of self and another person.”
Prosocial behavior: multilevel perspectives. (2005, background): “…recipient of help, self-other merging, and negative self-directed emotions as potential factors underlying some of the empathy-altruism findings (see Maner et al. 2002), the preponderance of evidence indicates that, at least under some specific conditions, altruism can occur among humans (Batson…”