2018
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/85wvp
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PREPRINT Inspired to lend a hand? Attempts to elicit prosocial behavior through goal contagion

Abstract: Helping often occurs in a broader social context. Every day, people observe others who require help, but also others who provide help. Research on goal contagion (Aarts, Gollwitzer & Hassin, 2004) suggests that observing other people's goal-directed behavior (like helping) activates the same goal in the observer. Thus, merely observing a prosocial act could inspire people to act on the same goal. This effect should be even stronger, the more the observer's disposition makes him or her value the goal. In the ca… Show more

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