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| Title |
Pseudoinefficacy: negative feelings from children who cannot be helped reduce warm glow for children who can be helped
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00616 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Daniel Västfjäll, Paul Slovic, Marcus Mayorga |
| Abstract |
In a great many situations where we are asked to aid persons whose lives are endangered, we are not able to help everyone. What are the emotional and motivational consequences of "not helping all"? In a series of experiments, we demonstrate that negative affect arising from children that could not be helped decreases the warm glow of positive feeling associated with aiding the children who can be helped. This demotivation from the children outside of our reach may be a form of "pseudoinefficacy" that is non-rational. We should not be deterred from helping whomever we can because there are others we are not able to help. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 9% |
| Germany | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 9% |
| Italy | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 3 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 5 | 45% |
| Members of the public | 5 | 45% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 84 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 82 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 27% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 8% |
| Researcher | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 13 | 15% |
| Unknown | 17 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 34 | 40% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 10% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 6 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Unknown | 22 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 109. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 August 2022.
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