“Asian Journal of Social Psychology”への論文掲載が決定しました

"Asian Journal of Social Psychology"に、以下の論文が掲載されます。感謝感情の喚起がペイ・フォワードや恩送りといった第三者への利他行動を促進するプロセスに、関係性欲求の充足が介在することを明らかにしました。

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People who receive kindness tend to feel gratitude and act in a prosocial manner toward third persons (i.e., “paying-it-forward”). Combining the separate evidence that (1) gratitude leads to the formation of strong psychological bonds from a beneficiary to a benefactor; and (2) people become more prosocial toward strangers when the Need for Relatedness (NFR) is satisfied, two online experiments were conducted to examine if NFR satisfaction mediates the association between gratitude and prosocial behavior toward third persons. After evoking gratitude by recalling past experiences (Study 1) or writing a letter to someone (Study 2), participants were asked to make a donation from their remuneration for the experiment to a charity organization. As predicted, emotion manipulation promoted donation via feelings of gratitude and satisfied NFR. Implications of the current model to integrate previous findings are discussed.