Prosocial Behaviour
by Bierhoff,Hans-WernerEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2002-10-29
Publisher(s): Psychology Pres
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Summary
How can social bonds in society be strengthened? How do we learn and develop prosocial behavior? This comprehensive textbook provides up-to-date coverage of the social phenomenon of prosocial behavior, incorporating all the major developments in the field from developmental and social psychology. This book will be a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of social psychology and sociology, as well as anyone with an interest in social services and voluntary organizations.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Prosocial Behaviour and Social Life | |
| Issues of Definition | |
| Forms of Prosocial Behaviour | |
| The Special Case of Planned Helping | |
| How Helpful Are Human Beings? Helpfulness in Nonserious Situations | |
| Intervention in Emergency Situations | |
| Culture, the Individual, and Level of Helpfulness | |
| Gender Differences | |
| Urban-rural Comparisons | |
| Time Effects | |
| Social Status | |
| Human Nature vs | |
| Cultural Context | |
| The Biological Perspective | |
| The Cultural Context | |
| Measurement and Generality of Prosocial Behaviour in Children | |
| How is Prosocial Behaviour Measured in Children? Generality of Prosocial Behaviour | |
| Learning and Development | |
| How does Prosocial Behaviour Develop? Prosocial Behaviour in the Second Year of Life | |
| Age Trends in Prosocial Orientation: 4-20 years | |
| Beyond Adolescence | |
| Learning of Prosocial Behaviour | |
| Prosocial Modelling | |
| Social Reinforcement | |
| The Role of Reasoning in Moral Internalisation | |
| Altruistic Self-scheme | |
| Processes of Prosocial Behaviour | |
| Empathy | |
| Modes of Empathy Arousal | |
| Self-other Differentiation and the Development of Empathy | |
| Measurement of Empathy | |
| Empathic Accuracy | |
| Guilt | |
| Empathy-based Guilt | |
| Guilt in Social Life | |
| Shame vs | |
| Guilt | |
| Measures of Guilt | |
| Guilt and Mental Health | |
| Transgression, Guilt, and Reparation | |
| Survivor Guilt | |
| Guilt over Affluence | |
| Responsibility | |
| The Meaning of Responsibility: Voluntariness and Controllability | |
| The Origin of Social Responsibility | |
| Responsibility and Social Conduct | |
| Definitions and Research Traditions | |
| Environmental Responsibility | |
| Responsibility as a Predictor of Prosocial Behaviour | |
| Two Dimensions of Social Responsibility | |
| Denial of Responsibility | |
| Theories of Prosocial Behaviour | |
| Arousal: Cost-reward Model of Intervention | |
| Costs of Helping and Costs of not Helping | |
| Prediction of Intervention | |
| Impulsive Helping | |
| The Revised Theory | |
| Altruistic Motive System | |
| Perspective Taking, Empathic Concern, and Prosocial Behaviour | |
| Basic Research on the Empathy-altruism Hypothesis | |
| Further Tests of the Empathy-altruism Hypothesis | |
| Empathy-related Responding and Emotional Regulation | |
| Multimethod Approach | |
| Theoretical Advancement | |
| Social Inhibition of Bystander Intervention | |
| The Decision-making Process: From Bystander to Actor | |
| Social Inhibition: When the Situation is Difficult to Handle | |
| Calculation of Corrected Probabilities of Intervention of Groups and Individuals | |
| Altruistic Personality | |
| Rescuers of Jews | |
| Further Results on the Altruistic Personality | |
| Psychology of Seeking and Receiving Help | |
| Receiving Help: A Benefit not Without Risks | |
| Seeking Help: Successful Coping may have a Price | |
| Which Factors Influence the Reactions of Help-recipients? | |
| Applications | |
| Raising the Level of First-aid in Real Life | |
| The Key Roles of Responsibility and Competence | |
| Determinants of Subjective Competence | |
| Solidarity | |
| Theory of Solidarity | |
| What is Solidarity? Different Uses of the Term Solidarity | |
| Common Interests | |
| Solidarity on the Basis of Interests of Others | |
| Conclusions | |
| Voluntary Work Engagement in Organisations | |
| Self-responsible Organisational Behaviour | |
| Organisational Citizenship Behaviour | |
| Prosocial Organisational Behaviour | |
| Organisational Spontaneity: Mood and Group Atmosphere as Predictors of Prosocial Behaviour | |
| Comparison between OCB, POB, and OS | |
| Volunteerism | |
| Functional Approach to Volunteerism | |
| Motives of Volunteers | |
| Role-identity Model | |
| Altruistic Personality, Motives of Volunteers, and Religious Orientation | |
| Conclusions | |
| Postscript | |
| The Community as the Unit of Analysis | |
| Sociobiological Perspective and Socialisation Processes | |
| Situational vs Dispositional Explanations | |
| Altruism vs Egoism | |
| What Comes Next? | |
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