Environmental determinants of altruism: The effects of stimulus overload and perceived control on helping

Sherrod, Drury R.; Downs, Robin

doi:10.1016/0022-1031(74)90015-8

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“…(1978) found that subjects recommended lower salaries for fictitious employees when exposed to office noise at 70 to 80 dB(A), than in quiet. Sherrod and Downs (1974) exposed subjects to three noise conditions: soothing (seashore), distracting (containing speech), and distracting with perceived control.…”

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The Effects of Noise on Performance

Suter¹

1989

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The Effects of Noise on Performance

Suter¹

1989

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“…Participants who completed a difficult listening task, relative to participants who completed an easy listening task, were less helpful with another experiment (Sherrod & Downs, 1974). Being in a larger crowd of people (which can be more stressful and hence mentally demanding), relative to being in a smaller crowd of people, reduced helping a person find a contact lens (Cohen & Spacacan, 1978).…”

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“…Simulated automobile driving for 8 hours Ryan & Warner, 1936 Controlling visual or auditory attention DeWall, Baumeister, Stillman, & Gailliot, 2006;Gailliot, Schmeichel, & Baumeister, 2006;Govorun & Payne, 2006;see Hockey, 1983;Inzlicht, McKay, & Aronson, 2006;Oaten & Cheng, 2005;Richeson, Baird et al, 2003;Richeson & Trawalter, 2005;Rotton, Olszewski, Charleton, & Soler, 1978;Schmeichel, Vohs, & Baumeister, 2003;Sherrod & Downs, 1974;Stucke & Baumeister, 2006;Trawalter & Richeson, 2006;Vohs, Baumeister, & Ciarocco, 2005;Wallace & Baumeister, 2002;Webb & Sheeran, 2003 Cursing see Hockey, 1983 Being exposed to uncontrollable noise Glass & Singer, 1972 Mental persistence (on math problems, word fragments) Frankenhaeuser & Lundberg, 1977;Vohs, Baumeister, & Ciarocco, 2005 Physical persistence (breath holding, …”

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The effortful and energy-demanding nature of prosocial behavior.

Gailliot¹

2010

Prosocial Motives, Emotions, and Behavior: The Better Angels of Our Nature.

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Ideal living requires people to work together, cooperate, and help one another.Hence, prosocial behavior is a necessity in modern life. Culture functions largely in part by people helping one another. Helping others is not easy, however, and can often demand effort and energy. Ingrained tendencies and other factors might predispose people toward selfishness and failing to help others. Self-regulation (or self-control) is the capacity that allows for the resolution of conflict arising from competing thoughts and behaviors (e.g., by overriding one thought or behavior with another) and for the exertion of effort. Self-regulation thus allows for increased prosociality, to the extent that factors (e.g., selfishness) that decrease prosociality must be overridden.Work on self-regulation has found that self-regulation is impaired after prior selfregulatory exertion (Muraven & Baumeister, 2000). This occurs because glucose -a primary energy for the brain -in the bloodstream is metabolized (used up) during selfregulation faster than it is replenished. The lowered glucose levels then undermine selfregulation. Work on helping behavior shows a similar pattern, consistent with the idea that helping requires self-regulation. After self-regulating, people are less helpful in various ways. Some work suggests that this effect involves changes in glucose levels.Ingesting glucose can prevent helping from decreasing after prior self-regulation.Though empirical evidence indicates glucose as a determinant of helping behavior, energy -construed in ways less clearly related to biological, metabolic energy -might also influence helping. Specifically, factors that help increase or save metabolic energy might increase helping, including increased metabolic stores (especially in the brain), reductions in other metabolic demands (e.g., demands met by money and tools), healthy nutrition, increased externalization of metabolic demands (e.g., social support

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“…Verschiedene sozialpsychologische Studien konnten nachweisen, dass sich Lärm auf die Hilfsbereitschaft auswirkt. Dabei zeigte sich, dass die Reduktion der Hilfsbereitschaft sowohl während der Lärmexposition (Mathews & Canon, 1975) als auch danach (Sherrod & Downs, 1974) auftritt. Ursache hierfür kann die Missstimmung sein, die durch Lärm ausgelöst wird.…”

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“…verärgert und sind dadurch in schlechter Stimmung, sinkt die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass sie ihren Mitmenschen helfen. In mehreren Untersuchungen zeigte sich, dass nach Beschallung durch Lärm prosoziales Verhalten erheblich reduziert wird (Korte & Grant, 1980;Sherrod & Downs, 1974). In jüngerer Zeit sind kaum mehr wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Wirkung von Lärm auf das Sozialverhalten zu registrieren.…”

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Untersuchungen zur kombinierten Wirkung der Stressoren Lärm und Hitze auf Leistung, Stimmung und Sozialverhalten des Menschen

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Nachhaltigkeit in Umwelt, Wirtschaft Und Gesellschaft

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Environmental determinants of altruism: The effects of stimulus overload and perceived control on helping

Cited by 101 publications

References 10 publications

The Effects of Noise on Performance

The Effects of Noise on Performance

The effortful and energy-demanding nature of prosocial behavior.

Untersuchungen zur kombinierten Wirkung der Stressoren Lärm und Hitze auf Leistung, Stimmung und Sozialverhalten des Menschen

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