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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Real-life helping behaviours in North America: A genome-wide association approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 In humans, prosocial behaviour is essential for social functioning. Twin studies suggest this distinct human trait to be partly hardwired. In the last decade research on the genetics of prosocial behaviour focused on neurotransmitters and neuropeptides ...
Georg Primes, Martin Fieder
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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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PLoS ONE, 2022 Similarity with others in need regarding various attributes [e.g., social group membership] has been shown to increase individuals’ empathic responses, willingness to help and prosocial behaviour.
Rinad Bakhti +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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Evaluation of the Conversations about Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Mental Health First Aid Course: Effects on Knowledge, Stigmatising Attitudes, Confidence and Helping Behaviour. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023 Bond KS +10 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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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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Book Review: Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behaviour
South African Family Practice, 2008 No abstract available.
Bob Mash
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