We propose two fundamentally different motives for helping: gaining pleasure and fulfilling one’s duty (‘‘pressure’’). Using the newly developed Pleasure and Pressure based Prosocial Motivation Scale, we demonstrated the distinctiveness of pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation in three studies. Although the two motives exhibited different relations to a variety of personality charact...

Introduction The quality of life (QoL) professionals working in nursing homes is often impaired by the stress that they experience daily. This sustained known as burnout. A syndrome ends up negatively affecting all areas and decreasing their life. Negative stereotypes can alter how perceive older adults. literature has supported relationship between high levels burnout negative stereotyping. Th...

We conduct a carefully designed random-assignment experiment to investigate whether negative affect impacts overconfidence. Our result indicates that, compared to neutralaffect, fear and sadness significantly increase overconfidence. All decisions were incentivized, and the result is robust to various specification checks. Further, our result has implications for the role of emotions in economi...

The relationships between coping strategies, goal adjustment and positive and negative affect were studied in 83 definitive involuntary childless people. Self-report questionnaires were filled out. The findings suggested that positive ways to handle the childlessness were related to positive affect, while negative ways to deal with the childlessness were related to negative affect. Cognitive co...

Abstract Background Negative affect reliably predicts paranoid thoughts. Previous studies point to the importance of emotion regulation for thoughts but have not yet focused on effects acute increases and variability in strategy use. Methods We conducted an experience-sampling study one week a subclinical sample. Acute intensity use from measurement until next, between-strategy (i.e., standard ...