Whom to Help
Prosocial Behaviors and the Restoration of a Tarnished Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria C Ramos (0000-0003-2622-2624, Duke University), María Cristina Fernández Ramos (0000-0002-0220-2963, Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-99 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642211066036 |
| OpenAlex | W4210996483 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
How can moral transgressors rebuild their image as good people? Using affect control theory, I hypothesize that prosociality-benefitting others-will blunt negative impressions of a norm violator. I also hypothesize that benefitting good or weak people-and not bad or powerful people-will amplify the positive effect of prosociality. In two survey-vignette studies, participants reported their perceptions about a man who takes money from a found wallet-unethical behavior-and gives or does not give it to someone else-prosocial behavior. Results show prosociality redeems violators more when they help good rather than bad persons. In certain situations, helping powerless persons is more image revamping than helping powerful persons
Altruism (biology) · Identity (music) · Perception · Prosocial behavior · Vignette · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Expressive Order
Ethical Decision Making by Individuals in Organizations
Attribution, Salience, and Attitudes toward Criminal Sanctioning
Research Note
Inside the Turk
Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Contemporary Social Psychological Theories
A Social Psychology of Reputation
Comparing Data Characteristics and Results of an Online Factorial Survey between a Population-Based and a Crowdsource-Recruited Sample
Data Collection in a Flat World
Impressions of Goodness, Powerfulness, and Liveliness from Discerned Social Events
The Moral Self
Heinous Crime or Unfortunate Incident
Behavior Settings and Impressions Formed from Social Scenarios
Redefining a Bizarre Situation
Altruism and Indirect Reciprocity
Is rehabilitation dead? The myth of the punitive public
Caught in the act
How Bad Was It? The Effects of Victim and Perpetrator Emotion on Responses to Criminal Court Vignettes
Simulating symbolic interaction
The affective control of events within settings
Impressions from events
Are liars ethical? On the tension between benevolence and honesty
Heinous Crime or Unfortunate Accident? The Effects of Remorse on Responses to Mock Criminal Confessions
Impression formation and word combination in sentences
An attributional analysis of reactions to stigmas
Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior
Us and Them
Destigmatization of identity
A Clarification of 'Ascribed Status' and 'Achieved Status
Reputation and Efficiency in Social Interactions
Criminal Identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |