TY - JOUR PY - 1975// TI - Effects of knowledge about remote social events on prosocial behavior, social conception, and mood JO - Journal of personality and social psychology A1 - Hornstein, Harvey A. A1 - LaKind, Elizabeth A1 - Frankel, Gladys A1 - Manne, Stella SP - 1038 EP - 1046 VL - 32 IS - 6 N2 - Conducted 4 experiments with a total of 167 undergraduates to study how knowledge of remote social events affects interpersonal behavior and perception. In each experiment Ss were exposed to a news broadcast containing either prosocial or antisocial content preselected to reflect either the "best" or "worst" aspects of human nature. In Exp I, Ss played 1 round of a nonzero-sum game, and as predicted, those exposed to a "good" newscast chose cooperatively and expected others to choose cooperatively and to have cooperative goals for the game more often than those exposed to a "bad" news broadcast. Exps II, III, and IV concerned possible mediators of this behavior. Ss who heard a good newscast, in comparison with others who heard a bad one, were more inclined to believe that a relatively high percentage of people subscribed to beliefs and values concerning the well-being of others. The effects of these same newscasts on mood, as measured by the abbreviated form of the Nowlis Mood Adjective Check List, were not significant. (17 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

LA - SN - 0022-3514 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.32.6.1038 ID - ref1 ER -