Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ215763
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Publication Date: 1978
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Risk of Embarrassment and Helping.
Foss, Robert D.; Crenshaw, Nell C.
Social Behavior and Personality, v6 n2 p243-45 1978
To examine the effects of one kind of cost on helping behavior, subjects were provided with an opportunity to help spontaneously in a nonemergency situation. Helping was more frequent in nonembarrassing conditions. Results support contentions that potential embarrassment deters helping in nonemergency situations. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: College Students, Intervention, Responses, Risk, Situational Tests, Social Behavior, Spontaneous Behavior
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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