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The effect of contest participation and contest outcome on subsequent prosocial behavior.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Following previous research on various aspects of contests, we aim to explore how taking part in a contest affects subsequent behavior. We focus on whether the experience of having just competed in a contest, beyond its outcome, would have an impact on ...
Adiel Moyal, Ilana Ritov
doaj   +1 more source

Young children discriminate genuine from fake smiles and expect people displaying genuine smiles to be more prosocial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We investigated when young children become sensitive to one evolutionary important signal of honest affiliative and cooperative intent: a genuine (Duchenne) smile.
Carpenter, Malinda   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Longitudinal links of negative student–teacher relationships and positive class climate with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study aimed to investigate whether negative student–teacher relationships and within‐class perceptions of the class climate at the individual level, and positive class climates at the classroom level in fifth grade, were associated with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration 1 year later, in sixth grade, in a sample of
Robert Thornberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The study used descriptive and multivariate statistics analytical methods to explore relationships between the highest level of education expected by 15‐year‐old Romanian students and factors associated with student background (personal and academic), school characteristics and selected beliefs and social–emotional skills.
Camelia Truța   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring personality traits and mental toughness in early career teachers in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While some teachers thrive, in similar circumstances other teachers encounter considerable difficulties. This is particularly concerning in England, where high numbers of teachers with five or fewer years' experience leave the profession to take another job outside of teaching, and pupil numbers are outpacing teacher numbers (Bryan & Price ...
Joanne E. Taberner, Sarah MacQuarrie
wiley   +1 more source

An Evolutionary Model of the Environmental Conditions that Shape the Development of Prosociality

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2014
The current review presents a model for how prosocial development is driven by sociocognitive mechanisms that have been shaped by natural selection to translate critical environmental factors into locally adaptive levels of prosociality.
Daniel Tumminelli O'Brien
doaj   +1 more source

Objectification decreases prosociality: the mediating role of relative deprivation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Objectification denies individuals’ personhood and renders them as tools for facilitating others’ goal achievement. With two studies (N = 446), the present investigation aimed to contribute to the literature by testing whether and how objectification ...
Zaixuan Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moral objectivism and a punishing God [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Many moral philosophers have assumed that ordinary folk embrace moral objectivism. But, if so, why do folk embrace objectivism? One possibility is the pervasive connection between religion and morality in ordinary life. Some theorists
Phelan, Mark, Sarkissian, Hagop
core  

Mimicry and Prosocial Behavior

open access: yesPsychological Science, 2004
Recent studies have shown that mimicry occurs unintentionally and even among strangers. In the present studies, we investigated the consequences of this automatic phenomenon in order to learn more about the adaptive function it serves. In three studies, we consistently found that mimicry increases pro-social behavior.
Baaren, R.B. van   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

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