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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1, 103-106 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727600300118
© 1976 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

The Effects of Status Similarity and Expectation of Reciprocation upon Altruistic Behavior

Daniel Romer

Illinois Benedictine College

Michael Bontemps

Illinois Benedictine College

Michael Flynn

Illinois Benedictine College

Thomas McGuire

Illinois Benedictine College

Charles L. Gruder

University of Illinois at Chicago Circle

The "wrong-number technique" for eliciting aid was used to test the hypothesis that similarity between benefactor and re cipient only increases helping when future reciprocation and inter action is likely. When helping is altruistic, reciprocity is not expected and dissimilarity need not inhibit helping. The results supported the hypothesis. Implications of altruistic as opposed to reciprocated helping were discussed.


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