Chung, Betty Jamie Yu-Juen2025-06-182025-06-181972https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22399The purpose of this study was to show that a recipient of help liked the helper better a) when the perceived motive of the helper was altruistic than when it was ulterior, b) when help given did not imply incompetence than when it did, and c) when the recipient perceived himself as being able to reciprocate than when he perceived himself as being unable to do so. A 2 x 2 x 2 design was employed to test these three hypotheses. 96 female and 96 male university students were used in Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 respectively. Subjects, run individually, were told that he and another subject (the confederate) were to work on different tasks, and were also told that their score on their task was dependent (ulterior motive condition) or not dependent (altruistic motive condition) on the other subject's score, and that they could (capable to reciprocate condition) or could not (incapable to reciprocate condition) help the other subject in the second task. Then subjects were given help by the other subject, either with the implication that the subjects were incompetent (incompetence condition) or without such an implication (competence condition). Subjects were asked to rate the other subject on a series of attraction scales. The results showed that subjects rated the confederate favourably regardless of which experimental condition they were in. Implications of these results are discussed.enAvailable to the World Wide WebThesis