Moral uncertainty promotes prosocial behavior : exploring the self-signaling motivation for prosocial behavior

Self-signaling theory posits that individuals engage in prosocial behavior in order to gain positive information about the self. Previous self-regulatory approaches to prosocial behavior have primarily focused on helping as means to self-repair (e.g., the negative state relief model), or as a means...

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Main Author: Chin, Jason M.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28003