Multiple benefits of alloparental care in a fluctuating environment [PDF]
Although cooperatively breeding vertebrates occur disproportionately in unpredictable environments, the underlying mechanism shaping this biogeographic pattern remains unclear.
Sarah Guindre-Parker+1 more
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Territorial identity of the population as a factor an consequence of social participation
The main objective of the article is to demonstrate the correlation between the lev el of territorial identity of the population and the development of social participation practices.
Irina N. Vorobeva
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The validation of the turnover intention scale
Orientation: Turnover intention as a construct has attracted increased research attention in the recent past, but there are seemingly not many valid and reliable scales around to measure turnover intention.
Chris F.C. Bothma, Gert Roodt
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Real-life helping behaviours in North America: A genome-wide association approach. [PDF]
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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Examining the influence of shyness on children’s helping and comforting behaviour
IntroductionShy children, who tend to feel anxious around others and withdraw from social interactions, are found to be less prosocial than their not-shy peers in some studies, though not in others.
Tara A. Karasewich+5 more
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Targeted helping and cooperation in zoo-living chimpanzees and bonobos [PDF]
Directly comparing the prosocial behaviour of our two closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees, is essential to deepening our understanding of the evolution of human prosociality.
Suska Nolte, Josep Call
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Effects of emotional intelligence on knowledge sharing among employees: A study of HoReCa companies in Turkey [PDF]
Information and knowledge play a significant role in helping organizations to gain competitive advantages by delivering unique products or services.
Sabahattin Çetin, Ayhan Karakaş
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Chaotic behaviour of the solutions to a perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation [PDF]
Stationary wave solutions of the perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation are considered in the presence of external hamiltonian perturbations. Conditions of their chaotic behaviour are studied with the help of Melnikov theory. For the homoclinic chaos Poincar\'e sections are constructed to demonstrate the complicated behaviour, and Lyapunov exponents are ...
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From social interactions to private environmental behaviours: The case of consumer food waste [PDF]
Consumer food waste, like many environmental behaviours, takes place in private, and is not directly subject to social monitoring. Nevertheless, social interactions can affect private opinions and behaviours. This paper builds an agent-based model of interactions between consumers heterogeneous in their sociability, initial opinions and behaviours ...
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Poverty Attributions and Emotions Associated with Willingness to Help and Government Aid
This study aims to understand how willingness to help people in poverty and the agreement with providing government aid are connected to emotions and attributional processes, in a country with a high poverty rate such as Argentina. Differences in poverty
Lucas Yúdica+2 more
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