Jane Allyn Piliavin
Biographic Data
| ID | 220538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Allyn Piliavin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane Allyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Piliavin |
| SIGNATURE | PILIAVIN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 896 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior
Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial behavior from a multilevel perspective that explores the diverse influences that promote actions for the benefit of others and the myriad ways t…
The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose
Altruism and Helping: The Evolution of a Field: The 2008 Cooley-Mead Presentation 1
I present a selective history of the evolution of the study of altruism and helping behavior, using a series of questions and answers. Some of the topics covered include the motives for helping, the origins of helping and altruism in evolution and child development, the relationship of organizations to helping, and the psychological and health consequences for the helper. A framework within which to view the current structure of the field is pres…
Health Benefits of Volunteering in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
We investigate positive effects of volunteering on psychological well-being and self-reported health using all four waves of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Confirming previous research, volunteering was positively related to both outcome variables. Both consistency of volunteering over time and diversity of participation are significantly related to well-being and self-reported health. The relationship of volunteering to psychological well-bei…
Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball
Prosocial Behavior: Multilevel Perspectives
Current research on prosocial behavior covers a broad and diverse range of phenomena. We argue that this large research literature can be best organized and understood from a multilevel perspective. We identify three levels of analysis of prosocial behavior: (a) the "meso" level--the study of helper-recipient dyads in the context of a specific situation; (b) the micro level--the study of the origins of prosocial tendencies and the sources of vari…
Values: Reviving a Dormant Concept
Over the past decades, the concept of values has gone in and out of fashion within sociology. Relatively recent advances in both the conceptualization and measurement of values offer the potential for a reincorporation of values into sociological work. Sociologists often employ cursory understandings of values, imbuing values with too much determinism or viewing them as too individually subjective. The concept is employed sporadically in sociolog…
Role as Resource for Action in Public Service
In this chapter we offer a conceptual framework for the understanding of public service that allows for the incorporation of sociological themes of organizational structure and institutional power. We build on sociological conceptualizations of the self found in role identity theory, using examples from research on health care workers to show how role identities and organizational structures can both limit and enhance the likelihood of principled…
Role Identity, Organizational Experiences, and Volunteer Performance
The central focus of this research is on the development and testing of a theoretical framework to understand performance and retention of volunteers. The framework is centered on identity theory and includes both general and specific role identity as well as organizational variables. Data were obtained from two samples of volunteers for the American Cancer Society (ACS). Specific role identity as an ACS volunteer is predicted from general role i…
Stacking” in Major League Baseball: A Multivariate Analysis
This research studied stacking —position segregation by race or ethnicity in team sports—in the 1992 Major League Baseball season using a multivariate analysis, with control variables of height, weight, age, power, speed, and skill. The strong relationship between race and centrality found in previous studies was confirmed; African-American players were predominantly in the outfield positions, Latino players in the middle infield positions, and w…
Giving Time, Money, and Blood: Similarities and Differences
The research reported here is a test of the applicability of an identity theory model, developed with samples of blood donors, to two other forms of institutional helping: volunteering and charitable donation. The model fits all three forms of helping; perceived expectations, parental modeling, personal norms, past behavior, and role-identity as a donor are significant predictors of intentions to donate. Role-identity is predicted from perceived …
Practical utopia building
Giving blood: The Development of an Altruistic Identity
Altruism: A Review of Recent Theory and Research
The literature on altruism in social psychology, and to a lesser degree in sociology, economics, political behavior and sociobiology since the early 1980’s is reviewed. The authors take the position that in all of these areas, there appears to be a “paradigm shift” away from the earlier position that behavior that appears to be altruistic must, under closer scrutiny, be revealed as reflecting egoistic motives. Rather, theory and data now being ad…
When in Doubt, Ask the Subject: A Response to Egan
My first reaction to the Egan paper was that it was quite thought-provoking. My intuition was in line with the author's regarding her characterization of the three structural features of school: the expectation for independence in the role, the subordinate and dependent social status of students, and the expectation that graduate student would be one's primary role. I hoped, on the other hand, that her concerns with the undesirable impact of thes…
Stature and Stigma: The Biopsychosocial Development of Short Males
Role Identity and Reasoned Action in the Prediction of Repeated Behavior
In this study we compare predictions derivedfrom the theory of reasoned action and identity theory regarding intentions to give blood and blood donation behavior over a seven-month period. Using a sample of 658 blood donors stratified by number of donations, we found that the addition of measures of the importance of the blood donor role identity, of social relations connected to blood donation, and of habit significantly improved the prediction …
Helping Behavior as Role Behavior: Disclosing Social Structure and History in the Analysis of Prosocial Action
Dominant approaches to the study of helping behavior are characterized by an empirical focus on temporally isolated acts of helping with little concern either for social structure or for interactional history. We suggest that Mead's conceptualization of role offers a unique theoretical basis for incorporating dimensions of both social structure and history. This conceptualization of role also points to certain circumstances in which role and pers…
Securing a Safer Blood Supply: Two Views
New Directions in Helping: Recipient Reactions to Aid, Vol. I
Addiction to altruism? Opponent-process theory and habitual blood donation
Women as TV Experts: The Voice of Authority
Three-year study shows more women experts selling products for women but still backed up by the “known quantity” of an authoritative male voice-over
The effects of the sex composition of groups on style of social interaction
Adolescent Prejudice
Adolescent Prejudice
Values: Reviving a Dormant Concept
Over the past decades, the concept of values has gone in and out of fashion within sociology. Relatively recent advances in both the conceptualization and measurement of values offer the potential for a reincorporation of values into sociological work. Sociologists often employ cursory understandings of values, imbuing values with too much determinism or viewing them as too individually subjective. The concept is employed sporadically in sociolog…
Prosocial Behavior: Multilevel Perspectives
Current research on prosocial behavior covers a broad and diverse range of phenomena. We argue that this large research literature can be best organized and understood from a multilevel perspective. We identify three levels of analysis of prosocial behavior: (a) the "meso" level--the study of helper-recipient dyads in the context of a specific situation; (b) the micro level--the study of the origins of prosocial tendencies and the sources of vari…
Good Samaritanism: An underground phenomenon
A field experiment was performed to investigate the effect of several variables on helping behavior, using the express trains of the New York 8th Avenue Independent Subway as a laboratory on wheels. Four teams of students, each one made up of a victim, model, and two observers, staged standard collapses in which type of victim (drunk or ill), race of victim (black or white) and presence or absence of a model were varied. Data recorded by observer…
Health Benefits of Volunteering in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
We investigate positive effects of volunteering on psychological well-being and self-reported health using all four waves of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Confirming previous research, volunteering was positively related to both outcome variables. Both consistency of volunteering over time and diversity of participation are significantly related to well-being and self-reported health. The relationship of volunteering to psychological well-bei…
Giving Time, Money, and Blood: Similarities and Differences
The research reported here is a test of the applicability of an identity theory model, developed with samples of blood donors, to two other forms of institutional helping: volunteering and charitable donation. The model fits all three forms of helping; perceived expectations, parental modeling, personal norms, past behavior, and role-identity as a donor are significant predictors of intentions to donate. Role-identity is predicted from perceived …
Role Identity and Reasoned Action in the Prediction of Repeated Behavior
In this study we compare predictions derivedfrom the theory of reasoned action and identity theory regarding intentions to give blood and blood donation behavior over a seven-month period. Using a sample of 658 blood donors stratified by number of donations, we found that the addition of measures of the importance of the blood donor role identity, of social relations connected to blood donation, and of habit significantly improved the prediction …
The effects of the sex composition of groups on style of social interaction
Effect of blood on reactions to a victim
Helping Behavior as Role Behavior: Disclosing Social Structure and History in the Analysis of Prosocial Action
Dominant approaches to the study of helping behavior are characterized by an empirical focus on temporally isolated acts of helping with little concern either for social structure or for interactional history. We suggest that Mead's conceptualization of role offers a unique theoretical basis for incorporating dimensions of both social structure and history. This conceptualization of role also points to certain circumstances in which role and pers…
Playing hard to get: Understanding an elusive phenomenon
Costs, diffusion, and the stigmatized victim
Stacking” in Major League Baseball: A Multivariate Analysis
This research studied stacking —position segregation by race or ethnicity in team sports—in the 1992 Major League Baseball season using a multivariate analysis, with control variables of height, weight, age, power, speed, and skill. The strong relationship between race and centrality found in previous studies was confirmed; African-American players were predominantly in the outfield positions, Latino players in the middle infield positions, and w…
Equity and the Innocent Bystander 1
This paper attempts to integrate equity theory and specialized theories and data concerning the reactions of bystanders and victims caught up in emergencies. The authors first examine three factors which determine the bystander's response to emergency situations: whether or not bystanders attend to an emergency; how aroused bystanders become by the emergency; how the bystander responds to the emergency — i.e., by helping, by denigrating the victi…
Effect of deception on reactions to a victim
Role as Resource for Action in Public Service
In this chapter we offer a conceptual framework for the understanding of public service that allows for the incorporation of sociological themes of organizational structure and institutional power. We build on sociological conceptualizations of the self found in role identity theory, using examples from research on health care workers to show how role identities and organizational structures can both limit and enhance the likelihood of principled…
The effects of physical deviance upon face-to-face interaction: The other side
Altruism and Helping: The Evolution of a Field: The 2008 Cooley-Mead Presentation 1
I present a selective history of the evolution of the study of altruism and helping behavior, using a series of questions and answers. Some of the topics covered include the motives for helping, the origins of helping and altruism in evolution and child development, the relationship of organizations to helping, and the psychological and health consequences for the helper. A framework within which to view the current structure of the field is pres…
Addiction to altruism? Opponent-process theory and habitual blood donation
Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball
On observers' reproductions of dissonance effects: The right answers for the wrong reasons
When in Doubt, Ask the Subject: A Response to Egan
My first reaction to the Egan paper was that it was quite thought-provoking. My intuition was in line with the author's regarding her characterization of the three structural features of school: the expectation for independence in the role, the subordinate and dependent social status of students, and the expectation that graduate student would be one's primary role. I hoped, on the other hand, that her concerns with the undesirable impact of thes…
Giving blood: The Development of an Altruistic Identity
On observers' reproductions of dissonance effects: The right answers for the wrong reasons
Good Samaritanism: An underground phenomenon
A field experiment was performed to investigate the effect of several variables on helping behavior, using the express trains of the New York 8th Avenue Independent Subway as a laboratory on wheels. Four teams of students, each one made up of a victim, model, and two observers, staged standard collapses in which type of victim (drunk or ill), race of victim (black or white) and presence or absence of a model were varied. Data recorded by observer…
Equity and the Innocent Bystander 1
This paper attempts to integrate equity theory and specialized theories and data concerning the reactions of bystanders and victims caught up in emergencies. The authors first examine three factors which determine the bystander's response to emergency situations: whether or not bystanders attend to an emergency; how aroused bystanders become by the emergency; how the bystander responds to the emergency — i.e., by helping, by denigrating the victi…
Effect of blood on reactions to a victim
The effects of physical deviance upon face-to-face interaction: The other side
Effect of deception on reactions to a victim
Playing hard to get: Understanding an elusive phenomenon
Costs, diffusion, and the stigmatized victim
Adolescent Prejudice
Adolescent Prejudice
Women as TV Experts: The Voice of Authority
Three-year study shows more women experts selling products for women but still backed up by the “known quantity” of an authoritative male voice-over
The effects of the sex composition of groups on style of social interaction
Addiction to altruism? Opponent-process theory and habitual blood donation
New Directions in Helping: Recipient Reactions to Aid, Vol. I
Securing a Safer Blood Supply: Two Views
Helping Behavior as Role Behavior: Disclosing Social Structure and History in the Analysis of Prosocial Action
Dominant approaches to the study of helping behavior are characterized by an empirical focus on temporally isolated acts of helping with little concern either for social structure or for interactional history. We suggest that Mead's conceptualization of role offers a unique theoretical basis for incorporating dimensions of both social structure and history. This conceptualization of role also points to certain circumstances in which role and pers…
Role Identity and Reasoned Action in the Prediction of Repeated Behavior
In this study we compare predictions derivedfrom the theory of reasoned action and identity theory regarding intentions to give blood and blood donation behavior over a seven-month period. Using a sample of 658 blood donors stratified by number of donations, we found that the addition of measures of the importance of the blood donor role identity, of social relations connected to blood donation, and of habit significantly improved the prediction …
When in Doubt, Ask the Subject: A Response to Egan
My first reaction to the Egan paper was that it was quite thought-provoking. My intuition was in line with the author's regarding her characterization of the three structural features of school: the expectation for independence in the role, the subordinate and dependent social status of students, and the expectation that graduate student would be one's primary role. I hoped, on the other hand, that her concerns with the undesirable impact of thes…
Stature and Stigma: The Biopsychosocial Development of Short Males
Altruism: A Review of Recent Theory and Research
The literature on altruism in social psychology, and to a lesser degree in sociology, economics, political behavior and sociobiology since the early 1980’s is reviewed. The authors take the position that in all of these areas, there appears to be a “paradigm shift” away from the earlier position that behavior that appears to be altruistic must, under closer scrutiny, be revealed as reflecting egoistic motives. Rather, theory and data now being ad…
Giving blood: The Development of an Altruistic Identity
Practical utopia building
Stacking” in Major League Baseball: A Multivariate Analysis
This research studied stacking —position segregation by race or ethnicity in team sports—in the 1992 Major League Baseball season using a multivariate analysis, with control variables of height, weight, age, power, speed, and skill. The strong relationship between race and centrality found in previous studies was confirmed; African-American players were predominantly in the outfield positions, Latino players in the middle infield positions, and w…
Giving Time, Money, and Blood: Similarities and Differences
The research reported here is a test of the applicability of an identity theory model, developed with samples of blood donors, to two other forms of institutional helping: volunteering and charitable donation. The model fits all three forms of helping; perceived expectations, parental modeling, personal norms, past behavior, and role-identity as a donor are significant predictors of intentions to donate. Role-identity is predicted from perceived …
Role Identity, Organizational Experiences, and Volunteer Performance
The central focus of this research is on the development and testing of a theoretical framework to understand performance and retention of volunteers. The framework is centered on identity theory and includes both general and specific role identity as well as organizational variables. Data were obtained from two samples of volunteers for the American Cancer Society (ACS). Specific role identity as an ACS volunteer is predicted from general role i…
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