Abstract
Summary The relation of race and sex of a person in need of help to the frequency of white male and female helping behavior was studied in a field situation separately involving interactions with 66 white women and 36 white men as potential helpers. Subjects could help, or not help, a white or black male or female, respectively, whose bag of groceries had just broken in front of a supermarket. Overall, the white females tended to help more than the white males, but the overall percentages of help given to males or females, or to blacks or whites, was not significantly different. However, the distribution of the white males' and females' helping did differ in relation to the sex and race of the person in need of help. Yet, despite these differences, no support was found for a racial or sexual congruence—increased helping frequency relation.
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