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Perceived significant others’ values: Are they important in the relationship between personal values and self-reported prosociality?

Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 2022
Background Personal values have been extensively found to be relevant variables linked to prosociality; they are desirable and trans-situational goals that serve as guiding principles in people’s lives to select modes, means and actions, these reflecting
Francesca Danioni, Daniela Barni, Claudia Russo, Ioana Zagrean, Camillo Regalia   +4 more
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A Bi-Dimensional Taxonomy of Social Responsivity in Middle Childhood: Prosociality and Reactive Aggression Predict Externalizing Behavior Over Time

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Developing social skills is essential to succeed in social relations. Two important social constructs in middle childhood, prosocial behavior and reactive aggression, are often regarded as separate behaviors with opposing developmental outcomes. However,
Simone Dobbelaar, Simone Dobbelaar, Simone Dobbelaar, Simone Dobbelaar, Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde, Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde, Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde, Michelle Achterberg, Michelle Achterberg, Michelle Achterberg, Michelle Achterberg, Mara van der Meulen, Mara van der Meulen, Mara van der Meulen, Eveline A. Crone, Eveline A. Crone, Eveline A. Crone, Eveline A. Crone   +17 more
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Searching for Prosociality in Qualitative Data: Comparing Manual, Closed-Vocabulary, and Open-Vocabulary Methods [PDF]

, 2020
Although most people present themselves as possessing prosocial traits, people differ in the extent to which they actually act prosocially in everyday life.
McAuliffe, William H.B, McCauley, Thomas G, McCullough, Michael E, Moshontz, Hannah, Rauthmann, John   +4 more
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Modeling the Effects of Religious Belief and Affiliation on Prosociality

Secularism and Nonreligion, 2021
To what extent do supernatural beliefs, group affiliation, and social interaction produce values and behaviors that benefit others, i.e., 'prosociality'? Addressing this question involves multiple variables interacting within complex social networks that
Luke Galen, Ross Gore, F. LeRon Shults
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Neurometabolic underpinning of the intergenerational transmission of prosociality

NeuroImage, 2020
Parent-child personality transmission can occur via biological gene-driven processes as well as through environmental factors such as shared environment and parenting style.
Naohiro Okada, Noriaki Yahata, Daisuke Koshiyama, Kentaro Morita, Kingo Sawada, Sho Kanata, Shinya Fujikawa, Noriko Sugimoto, Rie Toriyama, Mio Masaoka, Shinsuke Koike, Tsuyoshi Araki, Yukiko Kano, Kaori Endo, Syudo Yamasaki, Shuntaro Ando, Atsushi Nishida, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Richard A.E. Edden, Akira Sawa, Kiyoto Kasai   +20 more
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Does observing reciprocity or exploitation affect elevation, a mechanism driving prosociality?

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019
Fitness is enhanced by determining when to behave prosocially. Elevation, an uplifting emotion elicited by witnessing exemplary prosociality, upregulates prosociality in the presence of prosocial others, as such contexts render prosociality profitable ...
Daniel M.T. Fessler, Adam Maxwell Sparks, Theodore Samore, Colin Holbrook   +3 more
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Clock gene modulates roles of OXTR and AVPR1b genes in prosociality. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
BACKGROUND: The arginine vasopressin receptor (AVPR) and oxytocin receptor (OXTR) genes have been demonstrated to contribute to prosocial behavior. Recent research has focused on the manner by which these simple receptor genes influence prosociality ...
Haipeng Ci, Nan Wu, Yanjie Su
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When is giving an impulse? An ERP investigation of intuitive prosocial behavior [PDF]

, 2015
Human prosociality is often assumed to emerge from exerting reflective control over initial, selfish impulses. However, recent findings suggest that prosocial actions can also stem from processes that are fast, automatic and intuitive.
Aknin, Aknin, Aknin, Albert, Bartz, Batson, Baumgartner, Broyd, Carlo, Chiu Loke, Cornelissen, Cox, Custers, de Waal, de Waal, Decety, DeWall, Dunn, Fareri, Flores, Garavan, Genevsky, Hajcak, Harbaugh, Hein, Jones, Keltner, Kinnunen, Kleih, Knyazev, Lara B. Aknin, Liddle, Lubman, Ma, Mario Liotti, Mather, Milosavljevic, Moll, Morelli, Morelli, Nash, Pfabigan, Pogarell, Rand, Rand, Rand, Righetti, Ruff, Ruff, Ryan W. Carlson, Schmajuk, Schulz, Stanovich, Stevens, Tabibnia, Tinghög, Verkoeijen, Wakabayashi, Warneken, Waytz, Wessel, Xiao, Zaki, Zaki, Zaki, Zaki   +65 more
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Prosociality [PDF]

Current Biology, 2016
Prosociality refers to behaviours that are intended to benefit others. This definition appears to be so straightforward that it hardly bears mentioning: like certain forms of adult entertainment, we know it when we see it. Yet, determining what counts as prosocial is not as simple as it first appears. There are numerous behaviours that appear prosocial
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The Prosocial Personality and its Facets: Genetic and Environmental Architecture of Mother-reported Behavior of 7-year old Twins

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Children vary markedly in their tendency to behave prosocially, and recent research has implicated both genetic and environmental factors in this variability.
Ariel eKnafo-Noam, Florina eUzefovsky, Salomon eIsrael, Maayan eDavidov, Carolyn eZahn-Waxler   +4 more
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