Household Use of Composted Manure and Phosphorous-Free Fertilizers: Feeling Good versus Doing Good

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

Gaining weights... and feeling good about it!

Two problems that dog current microarrays analyses are (i) the relatively arbitrary nature of data preprocessing and (ii) the inability to incorporate spot quality information in inference except by all-or-nothing spot filtering. In this chapter we propose an approach based on using weights to overcome these two problems. The first approach uses weighted p-values to make inference robust to nor...

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 ...

Tainted altruism: when doing some good is evaluated as worse than doing no good at all.

In four experiments, we found that the presence of self-interest in the charitable domain was seen as tainting: People evaluated efforts that realized both charitable and personal benefits as worse than analogous behaviors that produced no charitable benefit. This tainted-altruism effect was observed in a variety of contexts and extended to both moral evaluations of other agents and participant...