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The martyrdom effect : when pain and effort increase prosocial contributions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Most theories of motivation and behavior (and lay intuitions alike) consider pain and effort to be deterrents. In contrast to this widely held view, we provide evidence that the prospect of enduring pain and exerting effort for a prosocial cause can ...
Bentham J.   +21 more
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Sustaining proactive motivation for non-mandatory professional development building self-determined employees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This dissertation examined the motivations energising employees' participation in non-mandatory professional development (PD) provided within their work organisation using a proactive motivation framework (Parker, Bindl, & Strauss, 2010) and a Self ...
Sankey, Kim S.
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Validation and Adaptation of the Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior in Sport Scale to the Spanish context of Physical Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Physical education (PE), by its own characteristics, is a subject where social communication is especially promoted. However, it is necessary to have tools that evaluate the social behaviour of students during PE classes.
Aguilar Parra, José Manuel   +4 more
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Early Social-Emotional Functioning and Public Health: The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A new 20-year study shows a link between children's social skills in kindergarten and their well-being in early adulthood.Researchers from Pennsylvania State and Duke Universities analyzed what happened to nearly 800 kindergarteners from four locations ...
Damon E. Jones   +2 more
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Right Temporoparietal Junction Involvement in Autonomic Responses to the Suffering of Others: A Preliminary Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Functional neuroimaging studies have emphasized distinct networks for social cognition and affective aspects of empathy. However, studies have not considered whether substrates of social cognition, such as the right temporoparietal junction (TPJ), play a
Hastings, Paul D   +2 more
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An Evidence-Based Violence Prevention Curriculum for Elementary School Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Poynton and Dimmitt present a brief overview and analysis of the article, Effectiveness of a violence prevention curriculum among children in elementary school: A randomized controlled trial, originally published in Journal of the American Medical ...
Dimmitt, Carey, Poynton, Tim
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Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory [PDF]

open access: yes
Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of people with social preferences has important implications in many economic domains. However, it is important to be aware of
Barmettler, Franziska   +2 more
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The Evaluation of Students’ Prosocial Behavior on Primary Education Level

open access: yesAl-Bidayah: Jurnal Pendidikan Dasar Islam, 2019
This study aims to evaluate the prosocial behavior of elementary school level students, especially State Junior High School students in Bantul Regency. This research is evaluation research with a quantitative descriptive approach with the CIPP (Context,
Esti Setiawati, Ika Ernawati
doaj   +1 more source

From stakeholders to protagonists: an exploratory framework for cultivating prosocial capacities for development

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
The world in 2024 faces numerous interlinked crises, including climate change and water shortages, rising geopolitical tensions, and a new awareness of the risks of pandemics.
Darren Kirk Hedley
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Effects of proactive and prosocial behavior on critical incidents of Lima schoolchildren

open access: yesPropósitos y Representaciones, 2017
The study focuses on the theoretical approaches of proactive and prosocial behavior of Covey (1996), Xifra (2009) and Roche-Olivar (2004), with the objective of analyzing the significant differences in the decrease of critical incidents in public school ...
Jhon A. Holguin Alvarez
doaj   +1 more source

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