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Motivational maturity and helping behavior

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1977
This study was undertaken to examine the independent influences of conative development (the Maslow needs hierarchy) upon behavioral aspects of prosocial orientations. It provides a behavioral demonstration of conative effects in a helping paradigm, among college-age men.
M, Haymes, L, Green
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Obesity: Can Behavioral Economics Help?

Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2009
Consumers regularly and predictably behave in ways that contradict standard assumptions of economic analysis such that they make decisions that prevent them from reaching rationally intended goals. These contradictions play a significant role with respect to consumers' food decisions and the effect these decisions have on their health.Food decisions ...
David R, Just, Collin R, Payne
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Personality Correlates of Helping Behavior

Psychological Reports, 1975
571 male members of volunteer groups and 699 nonvolunteers scored significantly differently on Cattell's 16 PF scale, volunteers being extroverted (out-going, happy-go-lucky, venturesome, and tenderminded), and scoring lower on shrewd, liberal, and self-sufficient.
B M, Smith, L D, Nelson
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Prior Help, Ego Development, and Helping Behavior

Child Development, 1974
Cox, NELL. Prior Help, Ego Development, and Helping Behavior. CmLD DEVELOPMENT, 1974, 45, 594-603. The purpose of the study was to investigate in young adolescents the effects of level of ego development and prior help on helping behavior. 79 eighth-grade middle-class boys served as subjects.
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Helping Those with Hoarding Behaviors

The Consultant Pharmacist, 2011
Hoarding--the excessive acquisition of and failure to discard possessions, which preclude the appropriate use of living spaces--undermines safety and health by increasing risk for fire, falls, and infections. Hoarding does not result from deprivation early in life, nor are elders with hoarding behaviors merely "thrifty or frugal." Up to 64% of elders ...
Jeannette Y, Wick, Guido R, Zanni
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Interpersonal Gaze and Helping Behavior

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1979
A field experiment was conducted assessing the effects of interpersonal gaze upon helping behavior. Three hundred twenty men and women were approached by a male or female confederate with his arm in a sling who, upon dropping some coins, either looked or did not look at the bystander.
Mary E, Valentine, Howard, Ehrlichman
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Helping Behavior in Networked Organizations

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
I study organizations in which agents are connected through a fixed, un-directed, and unweighted network, and work collectively to produce a team output. Besides choosing own effort that contributes directly to the team output, agents can also exert helping effort to their network neighbors so as to reduce the neighbors' marginal dis-utility of own ...
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Helping managers stimulate employee voluntary, helpful behavior

Industrial and Commercial Training, 2012
PurposeThis paper aims to present: the concept of voluntary, helpful organizational behavior (V‐HOB); research results regarding how one subset of future business employees, accounting students, may be predisposed to such behavior; and practical training and development approaches aimed at establishing a work environment supportive of V‐HOB.Design ...
Randall P. Bandura, Paul R. Lyons
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The Helping Behavior Helps Lighten Physical Burden

Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2017
ABSTRACTIt is often believed that helping behaviors benefit the recipients at the expense of the performers. However, we propose that costly helping behaviors could alleviate feelings of physical burden experienced by the performers. In support of the proposal, we found in five studies that both imaginary and real helping behaviors led the performers ...
Xilin Li, Xiaofei Xie
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HELPING BEHAVIOR IN LARGE SOCIETIES

International Economic Review, 2016
This article investigates how helping behavior can be sustained in large societies in the presence of agents who never help. I consider a game with many players who are anonymously and randomly matched every period in pairs. Within each match, one player may provide socially optimal but individually costly help to the other player.
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