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January 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — Arrogant people are less likely
than humble people to offer help to someone who needs it, new research
finds.
Although personal factors (such as previous time commitments and
feelings of empathy or distress) and outside influences (such as how many
people are watching) come into play, humility is the biggest factor in
whether someone decides to lend a helping hand, according to the study
published online Jan. 2 in the Journal of Positive Psychology.
“The findings are surprising because in nearly 30 years of research on
helping behavior, very few studies have shown any effect of personality
variables on helping,” the study’s lead author, Jordan LaBouff, who
collaborated on the research while a doctoral candidate at Baylor
University, said in a university new release.
“The only other personality trait that has shown any effect is
agreeableness, but we found that humility predicted helping over and above
that,” said LaBouff, now a lecturer in psychology at the University of
Maine.
“The research indicates that humility is a positive quality with
potential benefits,” the study’s leader and co-author, Wade Rowatt, an
associate professor of psychology and neuroscience in Baylor’s College of
Arts Sciences, stated in the news release. “While several factors
influence whether people will volunteer to help a fellow human in need, it
appears that humble people, on average, are more helpful than individuals
who are egotistical or conceited.”
The researchers conducted three separate studies involving college
students. The first study asked students to report how humble they were.
Those who considered themselves to be humble generally reported being
helpful as well.
In the second study, which used a measure of humility that did not rely
on the participants’ own judgment, the students listened to a recording
about another student who was unable to attend class due to an injury. The
humble students offered more time to help this person than those who were
more conceited.
Finally, students were asked to choose personality traits that applied
to them as quickly as possible. Again, the students who considered
themselves to be humble were more likely to offer more time to help a
student in need — even more so when the pressure put on the student to
help was low.
“Our discovery here is that the understudied trait of humility predicts
helpfulness,” Rowatt said. “Important next steps will be to figure out
whether humility can be cultivated and if humility is beneficial in other
contexts, such as scientific and medical advancements or leadership
development.”
More information
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