Doing good, feeling good? The roles of helping motivation and citizenship pressure.

Feeling good-doing good: a conceptual analysis of the mood at work-organizational spontaneity relationship.

Five forms of organizational spontaneity are described (helping co-workers, protecting the organization, making constructive suggestions, developing oneself, and spreading goodwill). Organizational spontaneity is compared with the seemingly analogous constructs of organizational citizenship behavior and prosocial organizational behavior. Based on a selective review of the literature, a multilev...

Doing Good, Being Good, and the Social Construction of Compassion

Citizenship and Impression Management: Good Soldiers or Good Actors?

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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

This paper experimentally examines image motivation—the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others—as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image motivation. By definition, image depends on one’s behavior being visible to other people. Using this unique p...

Helping Children Take Good Risks

Challenges and bumps in the road are a reality of every child’s life. Children try out new behaviors and have uncertain thoughts and feelings. Change – and allowing one’s self to be vulnerable – can be frightening and difficult. And beyond everyday personal challenges, the current generation of children is living through tumultuous and frightening times. Our greater world feels so risky that ev...