The ‘anti-social’ nature of prosocial research; a psychosocial critique [PDF]
, 2010 This article provides a critical review of recent psychological articles on prosocial behaviour. Even though it focuses on a specific section of this literature – giving to charities and prosocial responses to humanitarian disasters – the paper aims to ...
Seu, Irene Bruna
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When is giving an impulse? An ERP investigation of intuitive prosocial behavior [PDF]
, 2015 Human prosociality is often assumed to emerge from exerting reflective control over initial, selfish impulses. However, recent findings suggest that prosocial actions can also stem from processes that are fast, automatic and intuitive.
Aknin +65 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Evolutionary analysis focuses on how genes build organisms with different strategies for engaging and solving life’s challenges of survival and reproduction.
Paul Gilbert, Jaskaran Basran
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Multiple goal orientations as predictors of moral behavior in youth soccer [PDF]
, 2007 The purpose of this study was to examine task-, ego-, and social-goal orientations as predictors of prosocial and antisocial behavior in youth soccer. Participants were 365 male (n = 227) and female (n = 138) youth soccer players (M-age = 13.4 years, SD =
Kavussanu, Maria, Sage, Luke
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Places Change Minds: Exploring the Psychology of Urbanicity Using a Brief Contemplation Method
SAGE Open, 2017 An accruing body of research suggests that urban environments negatively affect mental health and well-being. It is thought that some of this so-called “urbanicity effect” can be explained by the perceived quality of the living environment.
Rhiannon Corcoran +5 more
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Traditional and Health-Related Philanthropy: The Role of Resources and Personality [PDF]
, 2006 I study the relationships of resources and personality characteristics to charitable giving, postmortem organ donation, and blood donation in a nationwide sample of persons in households in the Netherlands.
Batson C. Daniel +21 more
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All Aboard the Desistance Line: First Stop, Producing Prosocial Prison Attachments within an HIV Prison-Based Peer Program [PDF]
, 2016 This article explores the importance of social bonds in facilitating an investment in prosocial behavior amongst female prisoners working as HIV peer educators.
Collica-Cox, Kimberly
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Prosocial Consequences of Imitation [PDF]
Psychological Reports, 2012 Research has shown that helping behavior can be primed easily. However, helping decreases significantly in the presence of inhibition cues, signaling high costs for the executor. On the other hand, multiple studies demonstrated that helping behavior increases after being mimicked.
Müller, B.C.N. +3 more
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Link between mindfulness and personality-related factors including empathy, theory of mind, openness, pro-social behaviour and suggestibility [PDF]
, 2016 This research investigated a potential linkage between mindfulness and personality characteristics such as openness to experience, empathy (empathic concern and theory of mind), prosocial behavior and suggestibility.
Hatami, Neda, Kaviani, Hossein
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Prosocial behavior and gender [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 This study revisits different experimental data sets that explore social behavior in economic games and uncovers that many treatment effects may be gender-specific. In general, men and women do not differ in "neutral" baselines. However, we find that social framing tends to reinforce prosocial behavior in women but not men, whereas encouraging ...
Maria Paz eEspinosa +2 more
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