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@article{ Arnestad2024, title = {With a little help from my friends: the relational incongruence of benefiting financially from prosocially motivated favors}, author = {Arnestad, Mads Nordmo and Glambek, Mats and Selart, Marcus}, journal = {Frontiers in Behavioral Economics}, volume = {3}, year = {2024}, issn = {2813-5296}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3389/frbhe.2024.1297601}, abstract = {To improve our understanding of how people engage in altruistic behavior, it is important to investigate the motives provided by help recipients and how these motives influence givers' helping behaviors. Method: In the present study we conduct three experiments (total N = 606), exploring how the financial motivation of help recipients can affect givers' helping behaviors. Results and discussion: We find that people like to help others but resent helping those motivated by immediate financial gains. Study 1 shows that the recipient of help influenced the responses of the helpers depending on whether the recipient was making a sales profit from this help or not. An influencing factor was whether the recipient could provide an excuse for making such a profit. Study 2 replicated these findings also in conditions in which other kinds of profits were applied. Study 3 confirmed the results in conditions in which helpers were informed about recipients' financial motives before deciding whether to help.}, keywords = {Altruismus; altruism; Motivation; motivation; prosoziales Verhalten; altruistic behavior; Intention; intention}}