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Meta-stereotypes, social image and help seeking:dependency-related meta-stereotypes reduce help-seeking behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
People who need help can be reluctant to seek it. This can be due to social image concerns. Here, we investigate if these concerns may be prompted by a salient negative meta-stereotype: the belief that one's group is judged negatively by another group ...
Wakefield, Juliet R.H.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Individual and Social Predictors of Prosocial Behaviour among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2015
Based on the human ecological model, this study hypothesized that individual competence in empathy, prosocial moral reasoning, and social influence from parents, peers, and school are the key determinants of prosocial behaviour among Chinese adolescents ...
Frank H.Y. Lai   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Individual Goffin´s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) show flexible targeted helping in a tool transfer task [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Flexible targeted helping is considered an advanced form of prosocial behavior in hominoids, as it requires the actor to assess different situations that a conspecific may be in, and to subsequently flexibly satisfy different needs of that partner ...
Laumer, I. B.   +5 more
core  

Testing the impact of interpersonal regulatory fit on empathy, helping intentions, and prosocial behaviour

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Individual variation in cooperative behaviour in meerkats

open access: yes, 2010
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.

core   +1 more source

Life-history and genetic relationships in cooperatively breeding dwarf mongoose groups

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science
Cooperatively breeding societies show distinct interspecific variations in social and genetic organization. Long-term studies provide invaluable data to further our understanding of the evolution and maintenance of cooperative breeding but have also ...
Josh J. Arbon   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of Helping and Harming in Viscous Populations When Group Size Varies

open access: yes, 2013
Funding: Balliol College and the Royal Society.Recent years have seen huge interest in understanding how demographic factors mediate the evolution of social behavior in viscous populations.
Rodrigues, Antonio M. M., Gardner, Andy
core   +1 more source

New perspectives on the role of customer satisfaction and commitment in promoting customer citizenship behaviours

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2018
Background: It is widely accepted that the relationship quality dimensions of customer satisfaction and commitment may impact on customer citizenship behaviour. The positive effect of customer satisfaction on customer commitment is also undisputed within
Estelle van Tonder, Leon T. de Beer
doaj   +1 more source

From Theory to Intervention: Mapping Theoretically Derived Behavioural Determinants to Behaviour Change Techniques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Theory provides a helpful basis for designing interventions to change behaviour but offers little guidance on how to do this. This paper aims to illustrate methods for developing an extensive list of behaviour change techniques (with definitions) and for
Eccles, Martin   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: the relationship between expressed emotion and staff attributions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Objectives. Expressed emotion (EE) and attributions towards challenging behaviour (CB) were explored amongst a group of staff working within a residential and day service placement for people with learning disabilities. Design.
Langdon, Peter E.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

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