Understanding but unhelpful: Do grateful people value responsiveness or perceived benefit when receiving help?

• Main Author: LIM, Elizabeth
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: dispositional gratitude; value of help; responsiveness of helper; state gratitude; desire to affiliate; Applied Behavior Analysis; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/365; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1363&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Two studies examined the links between the grateful disposition, cognitive appraisals (perceived value and perceived responsiveness), state gratitude, and affiliative intentions (one’s desire to build or maintain relationships with his/her benefactor). In Study 1, 248 participants went through a gui...