The Strategic Side of Out-Group Helping

The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior: Group Processes, Intergroup Relations, and Helping

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-99

  Van Leeuwen, Esther ^a   Täuber, Susanne ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

"Scrooge effect" notion that helping can ward off existential threat; Act of helping way of sharing information and expertise; Help seeking behavior and realistic competition condition; Importance of evaluation potential in helping; In group serving functions of out group helping; In group serving motives for out group helping; Intergroup relations and element of competition favoring in group members over out group members; Positive distinctiveness through intergroup competition; Strategic side of out group helping; Unsolicited support eliciting negative reactions among recipients

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EID: 84890585467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307948.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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