Mood, Self-Awareness, and Willingness to Help

摘要: Two experiments using female subjects investigated the effects of mood and self-focused attention on willingness to help another. Experiment 1 induced a positive, negative, or neutral also two kinds high self-awareness (by either mirror procedure requiring essays) as well low condition. 2 used different technique induce three moods established self with procedure. In both studies, did not interact significantly in affecting subjects' reported feelings, although there were indications an intensification negative under self-focus. Furthermore, studies operated together positive increase effort behalf supplicant, whereas joint operation self-focus was much weaker. Also second experiment, raised frequency ideas about happy increased selfideas group. multiple regression analysis, these frequencies self, but index, successfully predicted amount work for supplicant.