Perspective Taking as a Moderator of the Relation between Social Rejection and Altruism

Zheng Li

International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2011, vol. 3, issue 2, 64

Abstract: This paper measures rejected people’s willingness to help and empathic concern towards the target person needhelp under four scenarios after the manipulation of social rejection by essay task and perspective taking byinstruction before reading the descriptions of the scenarios. Participants in rejection condition with a high levelof perspective taking showed a higher level of willingness to help than participants with a low level ofperspective taking. Rejected participants indicated equal degree of willingness to help another rejected person nomatter they adopt perspective taking or not. When the helping behavior can be considered as a future interaction,rejected participants with a high level of perspective taking did not show a higher level of intention to help whencompared with control participants with a high level of perspective taking. The willingness to help did not dropsignificantly when the altruistic behavior is under a risk of negative evaluation. The manipulation of rejectionand perspective taking did not show an influence on the participants’ empathic concern towards the target person.The results were not induced by mood or rejection sensitivity.

Date: 2011
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