The Effect Of Intelligence Level On Helping Behavior: The Role Of Interpersonal Distance And Situational Factors

Helping others is regarded as a traditional Chinese virtue,which has different manifestations of culture influence.We can explore the Chinese helping behavior from the interpersonal distance between the helper and the recipient,and the helping situation.Wisdom,as a kind of comprehensive psychological quality with both virtue and ability,can make people consistent in the face of complex situation.When the helping situation contains different interpersonal distance objects and different situational factors,it will become a complex environment,and individuals with different levels of wisdom will have different performance.Therefore,this study explores the influence of wisdom level on helping behavior through three sub-studies,from the two aspects of interpersonal distance and situational factors.Study 1 investigating the helping behaviors in different degree of emergency situations individuals at different wisdom levels of interpersonal distance object,found that helping behavior of individuals with high wisdom is higher than low wisdom level,and with the loss of the recipients of interpersonal distance closeness,low levels of wisdom in the less urgent situation,the lower the helping behavior.But the mother,a special object,no matter the level of wisdom,at any time to show "unswervingly" help.The second study examined the willingness and behavior of individuals with different wisdom levels to help people with different interpersonal distance under different risk levels.The results not only verified that the helping behavior of individuals with different interpersonal distance increased with the increase of intimacy degree,but also found that the higher the risk degree,the lower the helping behavior of individuals;Both the high wisdom group and the low wisdom group adopted the principle of risk avoidance when facing high risk.In the third study,the third party perspective was introduced to investigate the third party punishment and compensation behavior of individuals with different wisdom levels to the interpersonal distance objects under high and low unfair situations.The results show that: with the increase of the degree of injustice,the individual’s third-party punishment and compensation behavior will increase;With the increase of intimacy,individuals act on the principle of "emotion",and their compensatory behavior will be more than punishment behavior.Individuals with higher wisdom level are more likely to maintain social justice,which is manifested in the high wisdom level group’s difference only when the recipient is the mother under the two kinds of unfair degrees,and it is not easy to generalize the favor and misplace the behavior,while the lowwisdom level group’s difference in helping behaviors for the objects with different interpersonal distance is greater.Finally,from the role of interpersonal distance and situational factors wisdom level for helping behavior made to explore the influence of three main results:(1)Regardless of the urgency of the situation,the high and low wisdom groups showed "no turning back" to the mother’s helping behavior.;The lower the wisdom level,the less urgent the situation is,the lower the helping behavior when the recipients are acquaintances and strangers with lower intimacy.(2)Individuals with different wisdom levels have no difference in helping behaviors under different risk levels,and they all decrease with the increase of risk level;The high wisdom group was more "selfless" to the helping behavior of the objects with different interpersonal distance.(3)The high wisdom group only had differences in the two degrees of unfairness to the mother,while the low intelligence group had differences in both degrees of unfairness to the three kinds of interpersonal distance objects;Third-party compensation for mothers is far greater than for acquaintances and strangers.