Louisa PaveySummaryAffiliation: Kingston University Country: UK Publications
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"I help because I want to, not because you tell me to": empathy increases autonomously motivated helpingLouisa Pavey
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE, UK
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 38:681-9. 2012..Controlled motivation had no positive effects on helping in any of the studies. The results suggest that empathy encourages prosocial behavior by increasing autonomous motivation to help...
Autonomy and defensiveness: experimentally increasing adaptive responses to health-risk information via priming and self-affirmationLouisa J Pavey
School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK
Psychol Health 27:259-76. 2012..The results are discussed in terms of the benefits of autonomy for adaptive responses to risk information...
Highlighting relatedness promotes prosocial motives and behaviorLouisa Pavey
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE, UK
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 37:905-17. 2011..The results suggest that highlighting relatedness increases engagement in prosocial activities and are discussed in relation to the conflict and compatibility between individual and social outcomes...
Contextual modulation of biases in face recognitionFatima Maria Felisberti
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 5:e12939. 2010..This study attempts to uncover possible causes underlying such discrepancies...
