Accuracy in Predicting Situational Variations in Help-Seekers' Responses

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Over 300 subjects at four different age levels predicted situational variations in two different self-reported responses of persons asking for help. Accuracy at this task was substantially better than chance. Subjects were more accurate in predicting the importance to askers of getting help than their feelings about asking for help. Predictions of importance were relatively more accurate in same-sex giver-asker dyads, while predictions of feelings were relatively more accurate in opposite-sex dyads. Females were more accurate predictors than males, and they were more accurately judged than males.