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Are Courageous Actions Successful Actions?, Cynthia L. S. Pury, Autumn D. Hensel
Are Courageous Actions Successful Actions?, Cynthia L. S. Pury, Autumn D. Hensel
Cynthia L. S. Pury
When asked to describe a courageous action they have taken personally, people overwhelmingly describe an action with a successful outcome (Pury, Kowalski, & Spearman, 2007). Study 1 replicated these findings in observations of other people. Fifty participants described a courageous action taken by another person and made parallel ratings to Pury et al. Participants in Study 1 also described actions with overwhelmingly successful outcomes. In Study 2, 152 participants rated otherwise identical scenarios differing in success of outcome and attribution (internal vs. external) for outcome. Successful actions were rated as more courageous than unsuccessful outcomes, although this effect was attenuated …
Social Information Processing: The Effect Of Affective Ties On Children's Social Goals, Amanda C. Drake
Social Information Processing: The Effect Of Affective Ties On Children's Social Goals, Amanda C. Drake
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Previous studies have shown that children’s goals are influenced by emotion and that emotions can be manipulated using relationships. The present study combines these previous findings by examining the effect of children’s relationships on social goals. Social goals were examined in second and fifth grade children using hypothetical ambiguous provocation situations in which the relationship between the participant and the provocateur was manipulated by inserting the name of a friend, enemy, or a neutral peer into the story. After each situation, children rated the importance of four different social goals, indicating which of the four would be the most important …