What is an example of a prosocial behavior? How does a child's individual style and temperament affect behaviour? Describe the characteristics of the authoritarian personality, list three examples of authoritarian beliefs, explain how this personality is measured and how child rearing might lead to ...
Prosocial behavior consists of behaviors regarded as beneficial to others, including helping, sharing, comforting, guiding, rescuing, and defending others. Although women and men are similar in engaging in extensive prosocial behavior, they are different in their emphasis on particular classes of these...
Peer influence processes have been documented extensively for a wide range of maladaptive adolescent behaviors. However, peer socialization is not inherently deleterious, and little is known about whether adolescents influence each other’s prosocial behaviors, or whether some peers are more influ...
Current EAPs have penetrated only a small percentage of the workforce suffering with behavior/medical problems. Adaptation of traditional psycho-social models of prosocial behavior to supervisory intervention practices holds the promise of more efficacious EAP programming. Bystander intervention and equity ...
There are broadly two viewpoints in the economic and biological sciences about whyprosocial behavioroccurs. One view is that prosociality or cooperation is a reflex and a reflection of bounded rationality when observed in one-shot interactions, as humans have adapted to cooperate in the repeated inte...
In many cases, pro-environmental behavior is impeded not by negative attitudes but rather by weak positive attitudes combined with a lack of perceived behavioral control. For example, most people are in favor of recycling garbage but are discouraged by the time and effort it takes to bring thei...
A proposal for an integrated model of prosocial behavior and collective action as the expression of global citizenshipA proposal for an integrated model of prosocial behavior and collective action as the expression of global citizenshipdoi:10.1002/ejsp.2154EMS...
This paper offers a selective review of research on the existence and effects of prosocial behavior among individuals who work in public organizations. We first present evidence from the empirical literature documenting the importance of such phenomena and their features. We then discuss theoretical work...
The peer review process familiar to all academic researchers offers a classic example of the positive externalities from prosocial behavior: the reviewer bears the costs from submitting a high-quality referee report quickly, while the gains to the authors of the paper and to society from the knowle...
The hormonal stimulation of maternal behavior at parturition in female mammals is a prime example of how the same social stimulus (a young infant) can be processed over distinctneural pathwaysdepending on the female’s internal state. In the virgin female, whose brain has not been primed with ...