Better Language – Faster Helper: The Relation Between Spontaneous Instrumental Helping Action and Language Ability in Family-Reared and Institutionalized Toddlers [PDF]
Background. Prosocial behavior is the key component of social and interpersonal relations. One of the elements of prosociality is helping behavior, which emerges already in early childhood. Researchers have identified several domains of helping behavior:
Olga Kochukhova +5 more
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Helping behavior: The cry for help [PDF]
If an “injured” workman called out for help, 81% of the college Ss helped him. If the workman groaned in pain but did not call out, only 29% helped. The difference was significant and could not be accounted for by differences in judgments of amount of pain felt by the workman in the two conditions.
Dorothy Yakimovich, Eli Saltz
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Being helpful and being innovative: The role of psychological meaningfulness and positive affect
The present study is developed based on conservation of resources theory (COR) to explore the underlying mechanism and boundary condition for the relationship between helping behavior and innovative behavior.
Yifei Shen +4 more
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Young Children Help by Considering Other’s Needs [PDF]
Researches revealed that helping behaviors emerge as early as after children’s first birthday of their life. However, in young children, it is not clear whether these behaviors are performed in order to benefit other(s) or for another reasons. To study
Muhammed Şükrü AYDIN, Ezgi ACUN
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Empathy, Altruism, and Group Identification
This paper investigates the role of group identification in empathic emotion and its behavioral consequences. Our central idea is that group identification is the key to understanding the process in which empathic emotion causes helping behavior ...
Kengo Miyazono +3 more
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The Spirit of Assistance: Visualizing Prosocial Behavior in Ancient Egyptian Tomb Scenes [PDF]
Altruism, assistance, care, and empathy are essential social values that contribute significantly to the well-being and cohesion of human societies. In ancient Egypt, the concept of help is discernible through scenes of daily life, particularly within ...
Azza Mohamed Hassan Abdel-Azim Ibrahim
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Helping behavior in Disney animated movies and children’s helping behavior in the Netherlands [PDF]
This study is the first to examine whether Disney animated characters can inspire children to help others immediately upon exposure. This experiment involved 113 Dutch children (M = 9.03; SD = .738) and their friends. Children in the experimental condition were exposed to a Disney clip in which the main character helped a friend, while children in the ...
Leeuw, R.N.H. de, Laan, C.A. van der
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Happily Unhelpful: Infants’ Everyday Helping and its Connections to Early Prosocial Development
Young children’s everyday helping in the home has received relatively little attention in research on prosocial behavior. Nevertheless, key features such as young children’s cheerful participation in chores around the home, including in ways that make ...
Stuart I. Hammond, Celia A. Brownell
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The Helping Behavior Motivation in the Context of Everyday and Professional Help
The article analyzes and compares the approaches to the study of helping motivation in everyday situations and in the activities of helping professions specialists. A detailed review of studies of factors affecting the motivation of non-professional help
Shermazanyan L.G.
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Pro-social behavior in rats is modulated by social experience
In mammals, helping is preferentially provided to members of one’s own group. Yet, it remains unclear how social experience shapes pro-social motivation.
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal +4 more
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