"When two worlds collide": Career satisfaction and altruistic organizational citizenship behaviour [PDF]
International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 2014 Previous studies find a strong relationship between job satisfaction and altruistic OCB. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of a different kind of employee satisfaction, namely the extent to which employees are satisfied with the career ...
Koster, F.
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Predicting Altruistic Behaviour by the Benefactor-Beneficiary Relationship [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2022 The evolution of altruism—costly behaviour by an individual (the benefactor) that benefits another individual (the beneficiary)—has been theorized as a function of kinship, reciprocity potential, shared group membership, and costly signalling.
Jack A. Palmer, Linda K. Palmer
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Dual-processing altruism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Altruism refers to an other-benefiting behaviour that is costly but bears no direct profit to oneself. At least three different forms can be distinguished: Help giving, altruistic punishment, and moral courage.
Suna Pirita Kinnunen, Sabine eWindmann
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Do pigs have altruistic behaviour based on cognitive empathy? [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchBackground Altruistic behaviour is commonly defined as actions that benefit others at a potential cost to oneself and, in animal research, is typically inferred when individuals assist conspecifics without immediate personal gain.
Yaqian Zhang +7 more
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Lost letter measure of variation in altruistic behaviour in 20 neighbourhoods. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Altruistic behaviour varies across human populations and this variation is likely to be partly explained by variation in the ecological context of the populations. We hypothesise that area level socio-economic characteristics will determine the levels of
Jo Holland, Antonio S Silva, Ruth Mace
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Helping people, neglecting soil: contrasting effects of emotional empathy with humans on altruistic behaviour and soil conservation in a population of Chilean farmers [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe empathy-altruism hypothesis posits empathy is a pre-requisite for altruistic behaviour. Similarly, proposed an empathy-sustainability hypothesis, suggesting empathy is a pre-requisite for sustainable interactions with nature.
Alexander Neaman +4 more
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Altruism and its relationship to resilience during disaster [PDF]
JàmbáStudies positively correlate altruism and prosocial behaviour during routine times, yet unexpected environmental triggers (like a disaster) for prosocial and altruistic behaviour are underexplored.
Bethany L. Van Brown, Brenda K. Vollman
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Reward expectation drives dogs’ choices in a prosocial test [PDF]
Animal CognitionRecent research has tried to determine whether and under which conditions domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) engage in prosocial and potentially altruistic behaviour. A common paradigm used to test this is the so-called prosocial choice test.
Patrizia Piotti +6 more
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Early life adversity shapes neural and behavioural responses to oxytocin during altruistic decision-making [PDF]
Translational PsychiatryWhat makes some people willing to help strangers at a personal cost, while others are more hesitant or selective? Early life adversity - such as neglect or abuse - may shape how we respond to strangers in need later in life, yet the underlying neural ...
Nina Marsh +9 more
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The effect of physical activity on altruistic behaviour among university students: a chain-mediated effect [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Physical activity is a vital means for college students to maintain physical health, while altruism is a desirable psychological trait and a cornerstone of mental health.
Yong Jiang, Tianyi Wang
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