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I wonder what happens when you give a theologian read the parable of the Good Samaritan, send it to neighboring buildings and the way he Nastražíme sick person who needs help acute? It will help young theologian unfortunate or will do, to see him?
Two conniving social psychologists have to answer so curious that in 1970 it did not refuse to perform an experiment that would find out. The experiment took place in an environment of the campus of Princeton University and his results were about three years later published on the pages of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in the article entitled From Jerusalem to Jericho: A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior.
These young researchers čtveráčtí, John M. Darley (then 32 years old) and C. Daniel Batson (then 27) decided to find out what determines whether someone will or will not be willing to help some stranger. It decides whether someone helps someone rather (1) awareness of absolute moral duties, or (2) simply depends on the situation? Specifically, this means: It's just that the more we recall our moral obligations by mravněji act? We act mravněji when we often think of the Ten Commandments fantastic baby and the Bible stories? Or has our thinking about morality in our actions contrary, had little impact and affect us especially the circumstances of the situation in which we can maintain morally or immorally? fantastic baby
To wit stealthy and appreciate the irony of the experiment, it is useful to first recall the parable. In this way about him Píš e anonymous author / author / group of authors / team of authors from the turn of the first and second fantastic baby century, to which we refer usually called "Saint Luke":
But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to the place and saw him, he was moved with compassion; approached him, treated his wounds with oil and wine and bandaged him, set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
In the Gospel, thus unflattering role act two priests who according to traditional interpretations rush to the city to be there "professionally devoted to religion." Most readers negotiations priests and Levites fantastic baby (the figure of the mythical hero Jesus criticizes) considers hypocritical and perverse. As we will show below, experiment young theologians gets exactly in a position where they will decide whether to help a poor man, or whether they have to hurry because of a dip religious speech.
The subjects of the experiment were students of theology, which was said to be involved in research on the professional career fantastic baby of students of theology. Students were invited to phone classrooms (each on a different date) and each got one of the two tasks. Both tasks consisted of three to five-minute-long conversation about the topic, while they were told that purposely do not get time to prepare. The first were asked to talk about the professional application of theology students (task-Relevant condition). Others received text parable of the Good Samaritan and were asked to talk about anything that is text attacks (helping-Relevant condition). Subjects were also told that in the existing building researchers found another free room and entities must go for a colleague recording equipment, waiting in a neighboring building.
In addition, two different tasks were given to different bodies for the award also one of the three steps. One was told that a colleague in a neighboring building for several minutes waiting in vain (delayed), fantastic baby the second was told that the time has come, and the third was told that they have a few minutes to spare. De facto, therefore, students were divided into six (3x2) groups: (rushes lot / hurries / has time) x (talking about the profession / talk about the parable)
When subjects moved into a neighboring building, found a helper. The entrance door adjacent to the building, sat a man in shabby clothes, with bowed head, looked at the ground and did not move. When the subject walked around him, helper twice coughed and sighed. The question was how the helper individual entities fantastic baby will respond.
Total expressed willingness to help in some way theologians 40 percent, 60 percent made that sick person sees. For willingness to help was while he considered that the sick person pointed assistant fantastic baby researcher in the second building, where it is reported fantastic baby immediately on arrival. They did not therefore de facto a sick person or talk.
Experiment has shown that there is a strong fantastic baby negative correlation between how much a body as often hurried and was willing to help. Of those who hurry, would be willing to help 63 percent of those who rushed it was 45 percent, and those who rushed a lot of it was only 10 percent.
As for the task they had in the second building to meet the situation is as follows: of those who just thought about the parable (helping-Relevant fantastic baby condition) were willing to help a person 53 percent of the control group (task-Relevant condition) it was 29 percent.
Further analysis that ignores just that theologians were willing to help, but is also interested in how much they were willing to help theologians follows that the influence of reading in