Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• TSANG, Jo-Ann

Titel

Gratitude and prosocial behaviour : An experimental test of gratitude

Ist Teil von

• Cognition and emotion, 2006, Vol.20 (1), p.138-148

Ort / Verlag

Hove: Psychology Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• McCullough, Kilpatrick, Emmons, & Larson (2001) posited that gratitude prompts individuals to behave prosocially. However, research supporting the prosocial effect of gratitude has relied on scenario & self-report methodology. To address limitations of previous research, this experiment utilised a laboratory induction of gratitude, a method that is potentially more covert than scenarios & that elicits actual grateful emotion. Prosocial responses to gratitude -- operationalised as the distribution of resources to another -- were paired with a self-report measure of gratitude to test the prosocial effect of gratitude. To investigate positive mood as an alternative explanation, this experiment compared responses of individuals receiving a favour to responses of individuals receiving a positive outcome by chance. A total of 40 participants were randomly assigned to either a Favour or Chance condition. Participants receiving a favour helped more & reported more gratitude compared to participants in the Chance condition. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.