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How Religion Contributes to the Common Good, Positive Criminology, and Justice Reform

Religions, 2021
This paper argues that religious freedom has consistently been linked to volunteerism and the work of faith-based individuals and organizations in addressing a variety of social problems including crime and delinquency, substance abuse treatment ...
Byron R. Johnson
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Patterns of Behavioural and Emotional Difficulties through Adolescence: the Influence of Prosocial Skills

Anales de Psicologia, 2017
The main purpose of the study was to examine the cluster composition of the analysis on the effect of gender and age of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in a large school-based sample of high school adolescents ranging from 14 to 18 ...
Javier Ortuno-Sierra, Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero, Sylvia Sastre i Riba, José Muniz   +3 more
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What are Replicable Aspects of the Broader Autism Phenotype among College Students?

Collabra: Psychology, 2020
Are people with heightened autistic traits less likely to help other people? Recent research suggests that heightened autistic traits are associated with reduced self-reported prosocial behavior among college students.
Ariana Riccio, Steven K. Kapp, Nidal Daou, Jacob Shane, Kristen Gillespie-Lynch   +4 more
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Does language make people more prosocial? The influence of Mandarin proficiency on donation behavior

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Both the effects of language proficiency on individual outcomes, and the influencing factors of individual donation arouse wide concern, but researchers have hardly probed into the relationship between language proficiency and donation behavior.
Qiang Wang, Laihui Yu, Ruilin Zhang
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
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Prosocial behaviour in palliative nurses: psychometric evaluation of the prosociality scale [PDF]

International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2016
Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a prosociality scale within the palliative nursing context, and then examine the impact of prosocial behaviour in relation to job and educational satisfaction among palliative nurses.
Biagioli V., Prandi C., Giuliani L., Nyatanga B., Fida R.   +4 more
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Two years and counting: The dynamics of long‐term youth mentoring and association with parent and peer relationships

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study seeks to explore the reciprocal associations between mentor–mentee relationship strength and relationships with parents and peers across 2 years of mentoring. It is a secondary analysis of data collected by a national mentoring organization from youth (N = 1368; M age = 11.5 years; 59% female; White [n = 629], 30% Black [n ...
Westley L. Fallavollita, Michael D. Lyons   +1 more
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Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Social Behavior Alongside Neuroplastic Changes in a Tsc2+/− Rat Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by altered synaptic connectivity and network organization, resulting in profound impairments in social communication and interaction. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) represents a promising approach to modulate maladaptive plasticity associated with ASD;
Antonia Ramme, Rebecca Winter, Natalia Jarzebska, Fatih Ögel, Marten Julian Richter, Iveta Vojtechova, Christine Winter, Tomas Petrasek, Robert Waltereit, Nadine Bernhardt   +9 more
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Social Representations of Formal Volunteers and Spontaneous Volunteers in Socio-Natural Disaster Risk Management Contexts

Behavioral Sciences
Background: Citizenship plays a fundamental role in the management of socio-natural disaster risk, especially given the increasing impact and frequency of these events.
Matías Peña-Garay, José Sandoval-Díaz, David Cuadra-Martínez   +2 more
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Prosociality in Microtransit

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
We study (public) microtransit, a type of transportation service wherein a municipality offers point-to-point rides to residents, for a fixed, nominal fare. Microtransit exemplifies practical resource allocation problems that are often over-constrained in that not all ride requests (pickup and dropoff locations at specified times) can be satisfied or ...
Divya Sundaresan, Akhira Watson, Eleni Bardaka, Crystal Chen Lee, Christopher B. Mayhorn, Munindar P. Singh   +5 more
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