{"id":3154,"date":"2012-05-27T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2012-05-27T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:30:09","slug":"study-suggests-humility-increases-willingness-to-help-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/05\/study-suggests-humility-increases-willingness-to-help-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests humility increases willingness to help others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the University of Maine press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"helping hand\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Empathy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"237\" \/>In a three-part research project involving 310 students at Baylor University, UMaine psychology lecturer Jordan LaBouff and colleagues found that <strong>people determined to be humble were more willing to donate time and resources to a hypothetical student in need<\/strong>. The results held true even when researchers controlled the study for potential influencers, such as empathy, agreeableness and other personality traits.<\/p>\n<p>LaBouff says the finding is particularly surprising since nearly 30 years of research on helping have demonstrated that the situation \u2014 not the person \u2014 tends to predict whether someone in need will receive assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The research builds on a growing body of evidence that <strong>humility is an important trait that results in a variety of pro-social and positive outcomes<\/strong>, says LaBouff, the lead author of an article on the study, published in <em>The Journal of Positive Psychology<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the University of Maine press release: In a three-part research project involving 310 students at Baylor University, UMaine psychology lecturer Jordan LaBouff and colleagues found that people determined to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/05\/study-suggests-humility-increases-willingness-to-help-others\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[32,12,98,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}