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Anger and Prosocial Behavior [PDF]

open access: yesEmotion Review, 2014
Anger is often primarily portrayed as a negative emotion that motivates antagonistic, aggressive, punitive, or hostile behavior. We propose that this portrayal is too one-sided. A review of the literature on behavioral consequences of anger reveals evidence for the positive and even prosocial behavioral consequences of this emotion.
Doorn, J. van   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring new avenues: Psychedelic‐assisted therapy for young people

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Rates of mental illness in young people are increasing, whereas the development of novel mental health treatments has not significantly progressed. Psychedelic‐assisted therapy, using substances such as psilocybin and 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), has shown potential in the treatment of mental illnesses in the adult population, including ...
Ioanna Artemis Vamvakopoulou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A kind mind: effects of compassion-based meditation on prosocial intergroup outcomes in a South African pilot sample

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Three decades into democracy, the corollaries of apartheid continue to pattern South African society, with complicated race feelings and resistance to reparative government policies still driving separation.
Adala M. Prevost   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Prosocial-Culture-Work Nexus: An Integrative Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
Organization culture is a potential antecedent and moderator of prosocial behaviors at work. So, what is currently known about the prosocial-culture-work nexus?
Stephen Gibb
doaj   +1 more source

Prosocial behaviour in primary and secondary school students. Effects of the CYBUPRE intervention

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Prosocial behaviour is regarded as a critical factor in reducing aggressive behaviours among peers, both in physical settings and virtual spaces. This variable facilitates the enhancement of social relationships, promoting empathy, deep listening, physical and verbal service, and even solidarity, among other benefits.
Mercedes Chicote‐Beato   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prosocial development in adolescence

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Psychology, 2022
In this review, we describe the development of prosocial behavior in adolescence as a critical inflection period for social adjustment. Experimental research using prosocial giving tasks demonstrates that adolescents differentiate more between recipients and contexts, suggesting increasing ingroup-outgroup differentiation during adolescence.
Crone, E.A.M., Achterberg, M.
openaire   +3 more sources

Lessons from primary school students' perceptions of the factors that influence school connectedness

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract School connectedness is critical to improving students' health, development and wellbeing. Research into primary school students' perceptions of the factors that influence their sense of connectedness is essential for identifying practices that promote success.
Jordana F. Hoenig, Therese M. Cumming
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Duos? Jamaican Fruit Bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) Do Not Show Prosocial Behavior in a Release Paradigm

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2016
Once thought to be uniquely human, prosocial behavior has been observed in a number of species, including vampire bats that engage in costly food-sharing.
Eric Hoffmaster, Jennifer Vonk
doaj   +1 more source

Single‐subject designs in character education: Methods for rigorous, contextual, and practitioner‐led research

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils.
Shane McLoughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Functional Neuroimaging of Human Hypothalamus in Socioemotional Behavior: A Systematic Review

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2022
There exist extensive animal research and lesion studies in humans demonstrating a tight association between the hypothalamus and socioemotional behavior. However, human neuroimaging literature in this direction is still rather limited.
Andrea Caria, Ginevra Matilde Dall’Ò
doaj   +1 more source

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