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To Help or Not to Help? Prosocial Behavior, Its Association With Well-Being, and Predictors of Prosocial Behavior During the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic fundamentally disrupted humans’ social life and behavior. Public health measures may have inadvertently impacted how people care for each other.
Elisa Haller, Jelena Lubenko, Giovambattista Presti, Valeria Squatrito, Marios Constantinou, Christiana Nicolaou, Savvas Papacostas, Gökçen Aydın, Yuen Yu Chong, Wai Tong Chien, Ho Yu Cheng, Francisco J. Ruiz, María B. García-Martín, Diana P. Obando-Posada, Miguel A. Segura-Vargas, Vasilis S. Vasiliou, Louise McHugh, Stefan Höfer, Adriana Baban, David Dias Neto, Ana Nunes da Silva, Jean-Louis Monestès, Javier Alvarez-Galvez, Marisa Paez-Blarrina, Francisco Montesinos, Sonsoles Valdivia-Salas, Dorottya Ori, Dorottya Ori, Bartosz Kleszcz, Raimo Lappalainen, Iva Ivanović, David Gosar, Frederick Dionne, Rhonda M. Merwin, Maria Karekla, Angelos P. Kassianos, Andrew T. Gloster   +36 more
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Individual Differences in Toddlers’ Social Understanding & Prosocial Behavior: Disposition or Socialization?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
We examined how individual differences in social understanding contribute to variability in early-appearing prosocial behavior. Moreover, potential sources of variability in social understanding were explored and examined as additional possible ...
Rebekkah Lauren Gross, Jesse eDrummond, Emma eSatlof-Bedrick, Whitney E. Waugh, Margarita eSvetlova, Celia A Brownell   +5 more
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The relationship between gratitude and adolescents’ prosocial behavior: A moderated mediation model

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
IntroductionThe development of prosocial behavior is an important embodiment of youth socialization. Cultivating adolescents’ prosocial behaviors can be beneficial to individuals form correct outlook on life and values, and has a profound impact on ...
Ding Zhang
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MDMA enhances emotional empathy and prosocial behavior [PDF]

, 2013
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, 'ecstasy') releases serotonin and norepinephrine. MDMA is reported to produce empathogenic and prosocial feelings. It is unknown whether MDMA in fact alters empathic concern and prosocial behavior. We investigated
Heinrichs, M., Liechti, M. E., Preller, K H, Schmid, Yasmin, Liechti, M E, Simmler, L. D., Preller, Katrin H., Domes, Gregor, Heinrichs, Markus, Domes, G., Boris B. Quednow, Eisenegger, C., Gregor Domes, Quednow, Boris B; https://orcid.org/, Markus Heinrichs, Schmid, Y, Yasmin Schmid, Linda D. Simmler, Liechti, Matthias E., Simmler, Linda D., Preller, K. H., Cédric M. Hysek, Hysek, Cédric M., Christoph Eisenegger, Katrin H. Preller, Hysek, C. M., Domes, G, Heinrichs, M, Eisenegger, Christoph, Schmid, Y., Quednow, Boris B., Matthias E. Liechti, Hysek, C M, Simmler, L D, Eisenegger, C, Quednow, B. B.   +35 more
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Selectivity in early prosocial behavior [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Prosocial behavior requires expenditure of personal resources for the benefit of others, a fact that creates a "problem" when considering the evolution of prosociality. Models that address this problem have been developed, with emphasis typically placed on reciprocity.
Kuhlmeier, Valerie A., Dunfield, Kristen A., O’Neill, Amy C.   +2 more
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Helping and Volunteering across Cultures: Determinants of Prosocial Behavior

, 2013
Why do people help others and what motivates them to engage in voluntary work? Are the psychological mechanisms that initiate prosocial behavior similar across cultures?
Aydinli, Arzu, Michael Bender, Bender, Michael, Chasiotis, Athanasios, Bender, M., Chasiotis, A., Arzu Aydinli, Aydinli, A., Athanasios Chasiotis   +8 more
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Pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation: divergent relations to subjective well-being [PDF]

, 2008
We propose two fundamentally different motives for helping: gaining pleasure and fulfilling one’s duty (‘‘pressure’’). Using the newly developed pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation scale, we demonstrated the distinctiveness of pleasure and ...
Maio, Gregory R., Philip Broemer, Broemer, Philip, Gebauer, Jochen E., Jochen E. Gebauer, Michael Riketta, Riketta, M., Riketta, Michael, Maio, G.R., Gregory R. Maio, Gebauer, J.E., Broemer, P.   +11 more
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Prosocial behaviors in rodents

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Prosocial behaviors (i.e., actions that benefit others) are central for social interactions in humans and other animals, by fostering social bonding and cohesion. To study prosociality in rodents, scientists have developed behavioral paradigms where animals can display actions that benefit conspecifics in distress or need. These paradigms have provided
Gachomba, Michael J M, Esteve-Agraz, Joan, Márquez, Cristina   +2 more
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Selective and contagious prosocial resource donation in capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees and humans

, 2015
Prosocial acts benefitting others are widespread amongst humans. By contrast, chimpanzees have failed to demonstrate such a disposition in several studies, leading some authors to conclude that the forms of prosociality studied evolved in humans since ...
Messer, Emily J E, Mareno, Mary C, Messer, Emily J E; id_orcid, McGuigan, Nichola, Lambeth, Susan P, Lambeth, Susan P., Schapiro, Steven J, Claidière, Nicolas, Mareno, Mary C., Schapiro, Steven, Brosnan, Sarah F., McGuigan, Nicola, Hopper, Lydia M., Whiten, Andrew, Messer, Emily J. E., Schapiro, Steven J., Brosnan, Sarah F, Hopper, Lydia M   +17 more
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Prosocial Behavior Can Moderate the Relationship Between Rumination and Mindfulness

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
ObjectiveRumination, which is a coping style to distress, has become a common mode of thinking about mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. Improving mindfulness is an effective way to help people cope with rumination.
Yao Meng, Gang Meng
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