Individual variation in cooperative behaviour in meerkats [PDF]
Individual variation in cooperation is a striking yet poorly understood feature of many animal societies, particularly in cooperative breeders where individuals assist in the care of young that are not their own.
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Helping-Like Behaviour in Mice Towards Conspecifics Constrained Inside Tubes [PDF]
Prosocial behaviour, including helping behaviour, benefits others. Recently, helping-like behaviour has been observed in rats, but whether it is oriented towards rescue, social contact with others, or other goals remains unclear.
Murakami, Shinji +7 more
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Need satisfaction, passion, empathy and helping behaviour in videogame play
The primary aim of the current study was to explore the extent to which videogame helping behaviour could be explained by need satisfaction and passion.
White, Katherine +11 more
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Bystander Effect on Helping Behaviour of Female Adolescents [PDF]
Helping behaviour is an intentional act to benefit others. Due to constant, overwhelming distractions available massively in urban settings or urban-overload hypothesis, numerous research have unfortunately shown that people in the cities are less and ...
Larasati, D +4 more
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Empathy, Guilt Proneness, and Gender: Relative Contributions to Prosocial Behaviour
Guilt is a moral emotion that is often looked upon as a negative trait. However, studies show that some individuals are more predisposed to think, feel and act in a more ethical manner because of a lower threshold to experience guilt.
Linda Torstveit +2 more
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Helping and Volunteering across Cultures: Determinants of Prosocial Behavior [PDF]
Why do people help others and what motivates them to engage in voluntary work? Are the psychological mechanisms that initiate prosocial behavior similar across cultures?
Aydinli, Arzu +8 more
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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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Australian R U OK?Day campaign: improving helping beliefs, intentions and behaviours
Background Suicide is a major public health concern and has been recognised as a public health priority. R U OK?Day aims to prevent suicide by encouraging and empowering Australians to reach out to friends and family who might be experiencing personal ...
Anna M. Ross, Bridget Bassilios
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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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Help-seeking behaviour in sufferers of vaginismus
Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the help-seeking behaviour of sufferers of vaginismus and to explore their experiences of professional intervention. A postal questionnaire was completed by sufferers (h = 67) and ex-sufferers (n = 22) of vaginismus through a newspaper advertisement self-help groups, psychotherapists and professional ...
Jane Ogden, Elaine Ward
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