The present study deals with the question whether persons who constantly feel
deprived (both materially and non-materially) would help other people more than
persons who do not feel deprived because they can sympathize more with the needy, or
would help less because their mood is often bad, and people do not tend to help
while being in a bad mood. It was found that subjects who considered themselves to
be highly deprived helped more, on two separate occasions, than subjects who
regarded themselves as not deprived.
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