Helping Yourself or Others? Motivation Dynamics for High-Performing Volunteers in GLAM Crowdsourcing

Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others.

Helping Others, Warming Yourself: Altruistic Behaviors Increase Warmth Feelings of the Ambient Environment

Altruistic behaviors typically improve the welfare of the recipient at the cost of the performer's resources and energy. Do altruistic performers obtain any positive internal reward from altruistic behaviors? We conducted six experiments to explore whether altruistic behaviors could increase performer's warmth perception of the ambient environment. The first three studies focused on crisis situ...

Harnessing Benefits of Helping Others

Objective: Prior research supports the hypothesis that cancer survivors who help others face treatment experience a range of psychosocial and health-related benefits as a result of peer helping. This study investigates an expressive helping (EH) intervention designed to harness those benefits by targeting survivorship problems among cancer survivors treated with hematopoietic stem cell transpla...

Carter Helping Others to Help Business ?

There has been substantial growth in the level of charitable giving by firms, with many corporations hoping to attract new customers through an increase in social responsibility. This paper investigated the effect of this increase in corporate giving on sales using a fixed effects panel method. An investigation for the years 2001-2007 found no significant relationship between corporate giving a...

Motivation-Aware Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing

We investigate how to leverage the notion of motivation in assigning tasks to workers and improving the performance of a crowdsourcing system. In particular, we propose to model motivation as the balance between task diversity–i.e., the difference in skills among the tasks to complete, and task payment–i.e., the difference between how much a chosen task offers to pay and how much other availabl...