Agreeableness, empathy, and helping: a person x situation perspective.

By William G. Graziano, Meara Habashi, Brad E. Sheese, Renée M. Tobin. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The presence of others, prosocial traits, Machiavellianism: A personality × situation approach (2010, background): “Persons high in agreeableness offered help to victims across a wider range of situational contexts, presumably because of their higher level of prosocial motivation (Graziano et al., 2007).”
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): “For example, researchers often assume that among the Big Five personality traits, agreeableness reflects a prosocial orientation (Graziano et al., 2007).”
Impact of Stressors on Employee Performance: Moderating Role of Big Five Traits (2015, background): “Agreeable individuals care and understand the emotions of others and are empathetic (Graziano, Habashi, Sheese, & Tobin, 2007), helpful and friendly John and Srivastava (1999), and have the capability to constrain and control their negative emotion (Graziano et al., 2007).”
Egalitarianism and Competitiveness (2009, background): “Agreeableness is associated with characteristics such as altruism, trust, modesty, and pro-social attitudes (see William G. Graziano and Nancy H. Eisenberg 1997; Graziano et al. 2007).”
Resources That Make You Generous: Effects of Social and Human Resources on Charitable Giving (2009, background): “Understanding other people’s emotions is an important personality trait in forming and maintaining (more) relationships (Graziano et al. 2007; Twenge et al. 2007).”
Sex, Personality, and Sustainable Consumer Behaviour: Elucidating the Gender Effect (2012, background): “empathy (Graziano et al. 2007) and to values related to benevolence (Olver and Mooradian 2003).”