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López-Pérez, Belén, Howells, Laura and Gummerum, Michaela (2017) Cruel to be kind : factors underlying altruistic efforts to worsen another person’s mood. Psychological Science, 28 (7). pp. 862-871. doi:10.1177/0956797617696312 ISSN 0956-7976.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797617696312
Abstract
When aiming to improve another person’s long-term well-being, people may choose to induce that person to experience a negative emotion in the short term. We labelled this form of agent–target interpersonal emotion regulation altruistic affect worsening and hypothesized that it may happen when three conditions are met: (1) The agents experience empathic concern for the target of the affect-worsening process; (2) the negative emotion to be induced helps the target achieve a goal (anger for confrontation or fear for avoidance); and (3) there is no benefit for the agent. This hypothesis was tested by manipulating perspective taking instructions and the goal to be achieved whilst participants (N = 140) played a computer video game with different goals. Participants following other-oriented perspective taking instructions decided to induce more anger or fear in a supposed fellow participant working to achieve a confrontational or avoidance goal, respectively.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Q Science > QP Physiology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Altruism , Emotional conditioning, Social psychology | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Psychological Science | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0956-7976 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||||
| Number: | 7 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 862-871 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0956797617696312 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | López-Pérez, B., Howells, L., & Gummerum, M. (2017). Cruel to Be Kind: Factors Underlying Altruistic Efforts to Worsen Another Person’s Mood. Psychological Science, 28(7), 862–871. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617696312 Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Additionally, please provide a link to the appropriate | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Sage | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 October 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 October 2019 | ||||||||
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