When does self-reported prosocial motivation predict helping? The moderating role of implicit prosocial motivation

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 645-658

  Aydinli, Arzu ^a,b   Bender, Michael ^a   Chasiotis, Athanasios ^a   Cemalcilar, Zeynep ^b   van de Vijver, Fons J R ^a,c,d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Explicit motivation; Helping; Implicit motivation; Motive congruence; Prosocial; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956917414     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9411-8     Document Type: Article

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