Helping behavior and social exchange
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- Keywords:
- helping behavior, social exchange, resource availability, reciprocity
- Abstract
- Social exchange theory was employed to predict instigative helping behavior as a function of 2 types of resources available to the recipient for reciprocation (social and non-social). Prior to participants’ opportunity to help a partner through their performance on a manual dexterity task, the conditions of a 2 × 2 factorial design were established by informing participants that their partner would or would not later be able to (a) express the extent of her attraction toward them and (b) distribute a monetary benefit to them. The possibility of influencing reciprocation of both types of resources produced significant increases in participants’ helping.
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- 1976-08-01
- Issue
- Volume 4, 1976, Issue 2
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