Doing good buffers against feeling bad: Prosocial impact compensates for negative task and self-evaluations

Doing good buffers against feeling bad: Prosocial impact compensates for negative task and self-evaluations

Although evidence suggests that negative task and self-evaluations are associated with emotional exhaustion, little research has examined factors that buffer against these effects. We propose that perceived prosocial impact, the experience of helping others, compensates for negative task and self-evaluations by focusing attention on positive outcomes for others. In Study 1, perceived prosocial ...

High self-esteem buffers negative feedback: Once more with feeling

In this article, I report three studies showing that global self-esteem influences people’s emotional reactions to negative outcomes. Using social outcomes as well as personal ones (Study 1), naturally occurring outcomes as well as experimentally induced ones (Study 2), and implicit self-feelings as well as self-reported ones (Study 3), I show that high-self-esteem people suffer less emotional ...

Don't waste good methods on bad buffers and ambiguous data.

Feeling Love and Doing More for Distant Others: Specific Positive Emotions Differentially Affect Prosocial Consumption

Vol. LII (October 2015), 657–673 657 © 2015, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Lisa A. Cavanaugh is Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (e-mail: lisa. [email protected]). James R. Bettman is Burlington Industries Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, D...

When feeling bad leads to feeling good: guilt-proneness and affective organizational commitment.

The authors posit that higher levels of guilt-proneness are associated with higher levels of affective organizational commitment. To explain this counterintuitive link, the authors suggest that a dispositional tendency to feel guilt motivates individuals to exert greater effort on their work-related tasks that, in turn, strengthens their affinity for the organization. The authors tested this id...