Altruism and Prosocial Behavior

By Mark Snyder, Patrick C Dwyer. 2012

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A little thanks goes a long way: Explaining why gratitude expressions motivate prosocial behavior. (2010, background): “When helpers feel valued, they become more motivated to help because they feel their actions will improve the well-being of beneficiaries (Batson, 1998).”
The Role of Culture in Affective Empathy: Cultural and Bicultural Differences (2010, unknown): “One possibility stems from work on emotion regulation that suggests feelings of personal distress can lead to prosocial behaviour when it is the quickest path to alleviate selffocused anxiety (Batson, 1998).”
Toward understanding understanding : The importance of feeling understood in relationships (2017, unknown): “Another common term, empathy, invokes not only accurate understanding of one's emotions by another person but also other elements, such as imaginative sharing by them (Sarot, 1992) or compassion and sympathy (Batson & Powell, 2003).”
ProsocialDialog: A Prosocial Backbone for Conversational Agents (2022, background): “According to social psychology, helping others and following the rules of society are the fundamental forms of prosocial behavior (Batson and Powell, 2003; Baumeister and Bushman, 2017).”
The Strategic Helper: Narcissism and Prosocial Motives and Behaviors (2016, background): “Prosocial behaviors can sometimes be altruistic, which is defined as “self-sacrificial helping, or helping in the absence of obvious, external rewards” (Batson & Powell, 2003).”
Social Support: A Review (2011, unknown): “Giving support to others may cement a personal relationship, provide a sense of meaning or purpose, and signify that one matters to others, all of which have been found to promote well-being (e.g., Batson, 1998 ; Taylor & Turner, 2001 ).”
A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, background): “Reviews in the field of social psychology have dealt with helping behavior in general (Batson, 1998; Piliavin & Charng, 1990; Schroeder, Dovidio, Penner, & Piliavin, 1995; Schwartz, 1975).”
Public attitudes towards support for migrants: the importance of perceived voluntary and involuntary migration (2018, background): “Feelings of empathy are based on identification with the unfortunate situation of others and this is more likely when the neediness of people is perceived to be beyond their control (e.g. Batson 1998; Betancourt 1990).”
Theories of human altruism: a systematic review (2014, background): “For present purposes, the authors defined features of human altruism as an intentional and voluntary act performed to benefit another person as the primary motivation and either without a conscious expectation of reward (altruistic approach) or with the conscious or unconscious expectation of reward”
Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence (2018, background): “Prosocial behaviors are actions intended to benefit one or more people other than the self (Batson & Powell, 2003).”
What is moral courage? Definition, explication, and classification of a complex construct. (2010, unknown): “A reason for the relatively few studies about moral courage might be that previous research and theorizing on prosocial behavior did not distinguish between moral courage and other prosocial behaviors, especially helping behavior (Batson, 1998); thus, predictors of helping behavior have also been re”
The bystander-effect: a meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies. (2011, result): “Yet, the present findings are only partially consistent with the traditional empathy hypothesis (e.g., Batson, 1998), which assumes that empathy and empathy-induced helping increase mostly with the level of perceived danger to the victim.”
How do leadership motives affect informal and formal leadership emergence (2013, background): “Such individuals will exert influence over their peers, feel more obligated to lead, and display more socio-emotional qualities such as empathy, which other members of a group may interpret as cues of their prosocial tendency (Batson, 1998; Van Vugt, 2006).”
The intrapreneur and innovation in creative firms (2012, background): “Despite this apparent lack of consensus on what is understood by values, it does appear that there is unanimity on certain aspects of the topic (Batson and Powell, 2003; Hithin and Piliavin, 2004).”
Peer Influence on Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence (2016, background): “It includes interpersonal helping behavior, but also cooperation that benefits one’s group (Batson & Powell, 2003; Penner, Dovidio, Piliavin, & Schroeder, 2005).”
The Bright Side of Being Prosocial at Work, and the Dark Side, Too: A Review and Agenda for Research on Other-Oriented Motives, Behavior, and Impact in Organizations (2016, background): “Researchers have long been interested in understanding what motivates people, and considerable work in psychology has identified dispositional differences between individuals in prosocial motives and situational forces that activate and strengthen these motives (Batson, 1998; Penner et al., 2005).”
Does synchrony promote generalized prosociality? (2014, result): “We define prosociality as the willingness to give resources to another individual or group (Batson, 1998), which can be used interchangeably with the term cooperation (cf. West, Griffin, & Gardner, 2007). Anthropologists have long proposed that synchronous rituals promote efficient cooperation (Durk”