Civil Courage and Helping Behavior

By Tobias Greitemeyer, Peter Fischer, A. Kastenmüller, Dieter Frey. 2006

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The present research reveals that people's implicit theories of civil courage and helping behavior are clearly distinguishable. In three studies, it was shown that situations requiring civil courage rather than helping assistance were perceived more quickly and were associated with greater perceived responsibility, less perceived intervention skills, a lower degree of expected positive social consequences, a higher degree of expected negative social consequences, a higher salience of societal norms, more evaluation apprehension, anger, and more empathy. Moreover, results revealed that the decisions on whether or not to engage in either civil courage or helping behavior are differentially influenced by perceived responsibility (the influence was greater for the decision to help than for the decision to show civil courage) and empathy (empathy was only important for the decision to help, but not for the decision to show civil courage). Implications of these results are discussed and the question of whether ...

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• What is moral courage? Definition, explication, and classification of a complex construct. (2010, unknown): “Furthermore, Greitemeyer et al. (2006) demonstrated that the decisions on whether to show either moral courage or helping behavior or not are differentially influenced.”