5
Busyness Kills Your Heart
Why do people help in some situations, but not in others? This is an eternal question that social psychologists John Darley and Daniel Batson tackled in a famous experiment called the “Good Samaritan” study.1 Their study involved sixty-seven seminary students, people who you would expect to always do the right thing. They asked all sixty-seven students to deliver a sermon on helping strangers in need. Darley and Batson then chose some students to be “hurried” and some to be “unhurried.” The hurried students were told that they were running late to deliver their sermons. These students rushed off. The unhurried students were told they had time before they were due to deliver their sermons, but they might as well ...
Get Compassionate Leadership now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
