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The Basics of Prosocial Behavior

Random acts of kindness help others—but they're good for the helpers, too 💗 Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW When was the last ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- As a fifth-grade science teacher, Amber Lewis was used to managing classroom behavior through a system of rewards and consequences. But after meeting University of Missouri research ...
Prosocial behaviors are the voluntary actions we take to help others with no expected benefit for ourselves. Actions can be seemingly insignificant such as correcting a buddy’s uniform infraction or ...
Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study from the University of Zurich, available on the PsyArXiv preprint server, now shows that personality traits such as extraversion ...
Source: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Prosocial behavior such as helping or sharing with others not only facilitates interaction and cooperation between people and groups, but indeed seems ...
Music is a multifaceted sensory modality, by which many factors are combined to create an experience. Music has long been understood and utilized to induce communal bonding and emotional states. But ...
Researchers from University of Kentucky, Arizona State University, and Pennsylvania University published a new Journal of Marketing article that explores scenarios where people take on an ambassador ...
This study examined the impact of implementing Second Step, a violence prevention program, using a comprehensive, city-wide approach. The evaluation included 741 3rd-5th graders in six schools.