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Empathy, Guilt Proneness, and Gender: Relative Contributions to Prosocial Behaviour
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2016 Guilt is a moral emotion that is often looked upon as a negative trait. However, studies show that some individuals are more predisposed to think, feel and act in a more ethical manner because of a lower threshold to experience guilt.
Linda Torstveit +2 more
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Prosocial and antisocial children's perceptions of peers' motives for prosocial behaviours [PDF]
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011 This study investigated whether peer‐nominated prosocial and antisocial children have different perceptions of the motives underlying peers' prosocial actions. Eighty‐seven children, aged 10–12 years old, completed peer‐nomination measures of social behaviour.
Wardle, Georgina A. +2 more
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Social Reward Behaviour in Two Groups of European Grey Wolves (Canis lupus lupus)—A Case Study
Animals, 2023 Prosociality occurs in many species and is likely to be a crucial factor for the survival of group-living animals. Social feedback is an important mechanism for the coordination of group decisions.
Hana Tebelmann, Udo Gansloßer
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Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour
PLoS ONE, 2014 We relate different self-reported measures of computer use to individuals' propensity to cooperate in the Prisoner's dilemma. The average cooperation rate is positively related to the self-reported amount participants spend playing computer games. None of the other computer time use variables (including time spent on social media, browsing internet ...
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2004 We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed, and this “overjustification effect” can induce a partial or even ...
Bénabou, Roland, Tirole, Jean
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Prosocial behaviour axioms and values: Influence of gender and volunteering
Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2023 To promote prosocial behaviour, in the present study, we observed the human values that may predict it within the realms of the transcendental views of life, society’s shared culture and the world of personal and interpersonal affections.
María del Carmen Olmos-Gómez +3 more
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Assessment of prosocial behaviour of school-going adolescents: A cross-sectional survey
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2022 Introduction: Prosocial behaviour is one of the key features of the development of school-going adolescents. Therefore, the current paper focuses on the prosocial behaviour of school-going adolescents in Kollam District, Kerala.
U Harikrishnan, Grace L Sailo
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Pupils’ prosociality and its relations to their meaning of life and teacher’s interaction style
Forum Pedagogiczne, 2018 The study deals with pupils´ self-perceived prosocial behaviour and its correlations to pupils´ meaning of life and teacher’s interaction style. The pupils (14-and-15-years old) from lower secondary school were respondents of this research. The objective
Anna Sádovská, Peter Kusý
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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 +1 more
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Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations [PDF]
Nature Human Behaviour, 2020 Abstract Human societies include many types of social relationships. Friends, family, business colleagues, online contacts, and religious groups, for example, can all contribute to an individual's social life. Individuals may behave differently in different domains, but their success in one domain may nonetheless engender success in another ...
Qi Su +3 more
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