title: On the universality of the attribution-affect model of helping.
abstract: Although Pilati et al.'s (2014) findings question the strong quantitative universality of the attribution-affect model of helping, they are consistent with a weak form of quantitative universality, as well as with the qualitative universality of the theory. However, universality is put into question by previous studies revealing significant and sizeable between-study differences in the strength of the causal paths postulated by the theory. These differences may in part reflect differences in the type of helping situations studied.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reisenzein
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012941:Social Responsibility
keywords: Anger; Attribution-affect model of helping; Cross-cultural research; Helping; Qualitative and quantitative universality; Responsibility; Sympathy