Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with opioid addiction helping behaviour in tri-state Appalachian counties: application of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model–cross-sectional analysis [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2023 Objectives The overdose epidemic was designated a ‘Public Health Emergency’ in the USA on 26 October 2017, bringing attention to the severity of this public health problem.
Richard W Kim +6 more
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Educational attainment is associated with unconditional helping behaviour [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 Altruism is a universal human trait, but little is known about its within-population variation. Socio-economic status (SES) has been found to positively impact altruism, but the specific socio-economic variables behind this relationship have remained ...
Grace Westlake +2 more
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Helping behaviour of volunteers in providing post-disaster psychosocial assistance [PDF]
JàmbáThis study explores the ways that volunteers help in overcoming the negative impacts of disasters. The direction of this research is the production of guiding data for roadmaps for strengthening the capacity of volunteers as the spearhead of disaster ...
Nevi K. Arianti +3 more
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Encouraging bystander helping behaviour in a violent incident: a virtual reality study using reinforcement learning [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Virtual reality (VR) affords the study of the behaviour of people in social situations that would be logistically difficult or ethically problematic in reality.
Aitor Rovira, Mel Slater
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Market forces influence helping behaviour in cooperatively breeding paper wasps [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 In cooperatively breeding species, subordinates help to raise the dominant breeders’ offspring in return for benefits associated with group membership. Here, Grinsted and Field show that the amount of help provided by subordinate paper wasps depends on ...
Lena Grinsted, Jeremy Field
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People Are Unwilling to Help Others Pursue a Luxury Life: Egocentric or Other-Centric Motivations? [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesPeople are generally willing to help others maintain a basic life, but their willingness to help others pursue a luxury life—and the motivations underlying such decisions—remain unclear.
Jian Hao, Shiqing Li, Weiran Li
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Direct benefits explain interspecific variation in helping behaviour among cooperatively breeding birds [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Helpers in cooperatively breeding species can gain indirect benefits when caring for kin, but care may also be directed towards non-kin. Here, Kingma shows that, in cooperatively breeding birds, helping non-kin is common and helping effort is higher when
Sjouke A. Kingma
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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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Cultural differences in self-reported empathy in Indonesia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEmpathy, comprising cognitive and affective components, is linked to numerous individual and societal benefits, including enhanced well-being and prosocial behaviours.
Sarah Nila +3 more
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Orientations in difficult situations of providing assistance according to the type of the individual’s attitudes towards helping behaviour [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Акмеология образования. Психология развития, 2022 The research on helping behaviour in difficult situations is of relevance due to the increase in the difficulty of situations of providing assistance.
Ekaterina N. Leonova
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