Altruism and egoism: prosocial motivations for helping depend on relationship context

By Jon K. Maner, M. Gailliot. 2007

191 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Safety Research, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/dbb3de8d216451f6aaac69e1acab639d46bc2e4f

How researchers see this paper

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In Health

1. Florian Forster
2. Mark Schaller
3. C. Nathan DeWall
4. Dietmar Grichnik
5. Jon K. Maner
6. Roy F. Baumeister

In Safety Research

1. Ju-Young Kim
2. Florian Forster
3. Mark Schaller
4. C. Nathan DeWall
5. Dietmar Grichnik
6. Roy F. Baumeister
7. A. Ritz
8. Christian Traxler

In Social Psychology

1. C. Nathan DeWall
2. Roy F. Baumeister
3. Jon K. Maner
4. Mark Schaller
5. Florian Forster
6. M. Baertschi
7. Dietmar Grichnik
8. Oliver Neumann

Citations in the corpus

• Pay what you Want: A New Participative Pricing Mechanism (2009, background): “Beyond the concern of fairness, we believe that buyers also pay higher prices because of altruism (Maner and Gailliot 2007; Piliavin and Charng 1990), defined as a “behavior carried out to benefit another without anticipation of rewards from external sources” (Macaulay and Berkowitz 1970, p. 3).”
• Effects of songs with prosocial lyrics on prosocial thoughts, affect, and behavior. (2009, unknown): “Directly after each essay, participants indicated how sympathetic, compassionate, and soft-hearted they felt toward the author of the essay (see Maner & Gailliot, 2007).”
• Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem". (2007, background): “People’s needs and desires can influence a broad range of cognitive and behavioral processes including attention (Maner et al., 2003; Maner, Gailliot, & DeWall, in press), evaluation and interpretation (Schaller, Park, & Faulkner, 2003), memory (Gardner et al., 2000), aggression (Twenge et al., 2001”
• Public Service Motivation, Prosocial Motivation and Altruism: Towards Disentanglement and Conceptual Clarity (2019, background): “In social psychology, for instance, altruism is often defined as “acting on genuinely selfless motives to enhance another’s welfare” (Maner & Gailliot, 2007, p. 348), which would suggest that altruism is a behaviour based on a specific set of underlying yet conceptually distinct motives.”
• Social Entrepreneurial Intention Formation of Corporate Volunteers (2013, background): “Empathy is a specific dimension of personal social desirability and has been studied extensively in the area of social psychology (Balson and Coke 1981; Kenrick et al. 2002; Manner and Gailliot 2007; Reis, Collins, and Berscheid 2000).”