Subjects read two descriptions of an actor responding positively toward a target person with different patterns of information accompanying them. In one description, the subject was the target person. Comparison between two-dimension information patterns implied that when distinctiveness or consensus information was absent results were dependent…

Examined whether reading the Darley and Batson study served to change subjects' understanding of the determinants of helping, and if subjects would come to regard degree of hurry as an important predictor in similar helping situations. Found subjects predicting helping behavior in similar situations were influenced moderately by hurry. (RC)