{"id":915,"date":"2011-03-14T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=915"},"modified":"2023-07-23T20:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:25:47","slug":"instrumentality-boosts-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/webinars\/decision-making-for-a-social-world\/instrumentality-boosts-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Instrumentality Boosts Appreciation: Helpers Are More Appreciated While They Are Useful<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/converse-fishbach-2012-instrumentality-boosts-appreciation-helpers-are-more-appreciated-while-they-are-useful.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Converse &amp; Ayelet Fishbach<\/p>\n<p>We propose that in social interactions, gratitude for a helper depends on the helper\u2019s instrumentality: The more motivated one is to accomplish a goal and the more a potential helper facilitates that goal, the more gratitude one will feel for that helper. In one lab experiment with strangers and one field experiment with real study partners, we found support for this instrumentality-boost hypothesis. Beneficiaries felt more gratitude for their helpers while they were receiving help toward an ongoing task than after that task had been completed. Beneficiaries thus felt more gratitude when they had received less benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instrumentality Boosts Appreciation: Helpers Are More Appreciated While They Are Useful (link to the article) Benjamin Converse &amp; Ayelet Fishbach We propose that in social interactions, gratitude for a helper depends on the helper\u2019s instrumentality: The more motivated one is to accomplish a goal and the more a potential helper facilitates that goal, the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/webinars\/decision-making-for-a-social-world\/instrumentality-boosts-gratitude\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude - International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Instrumentality Boosts Appreciation: Helpers Are More Appreciated While They Are Useful (link to the article) Benjamin Converse &amp; 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