The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior: Group Processes, Intergroup Relations, and Helping

✍ Scribed by Stefan Stürmer, Mark Snyder

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 446
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior provides original contributions that examine current perspectives and promising directions for future research on helping behaviors and related core issues.

Covers contributions which deal explicitly with interventions designed to foster out-group helping (and to improve its quality) in real world settings
Provides the reader with a cohesive look at helping and prosocial behaviors using a combination of theoretical work with research on interventions in applied settings
Examines helping from multiple perspectives in order to recognize the diverse influences that promote actions for the benefit of others
Contributors to this volume include cutting-edge researchers using both field studies and laboratory experiments

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