The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior

By John F. Dovidio, J. A. Piliavin, D. Schroeder, Louis A. Penner. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The Many Faces of Empathy: Parsing Empathic Phenomena through a Proximate, Dynamic-Systems View of Representing the Other in the Self (2012, positive): “Sometimes the observer sees a helpless and vulnerable target, but the danger and need is immediate (e.g., see Dovidio et al., 2006; Latané, 1969).”
The presence of others, prosocial traits, Machiavellianism: A personality × situation approach (2010, background): “Empirical studies confirmed that differences in prosocial personality are associated with differences in prosocial actions that range from willingness to help a distressed individual to heroic rescues of people whose lives were in danger (Dovidio et al., 2006).”
Helping Behavior, Dispositional Empathic Concern, and the Principle of Care (2006, positive): “The distinction between planned, long-term help and spontaneous, short-term help is fundamental (see Dovidio et al. 2006).”
The bystander-effect: a meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies. (2011, positive): “This argument, which is derived from the arousal: cost–reward model (Dovidio et al., 1991, 2006; Piliavin et al., 1981; Schroeder et al., 1995), suggests that bystanders intervene in part because they seek to reduce their own arousal.”
The his and hers of prosocial behavior: an examination of the social psychology of gender. (2009, background): “Social psychologists then carried out numerous field and laboratory experiments on helping behavior (see Batson, 1998; Dovidio et al., 2006).”
When and How Do High Status Group Members Offer Help: Effects of Social Dominance Orientation and Status Threat (2008, methodology): “, costs for helping) associated with assisting others, regardless of group membership (Dovidio et al., 2006), the present study provides more direct evidence of the role of helping in intergroup relations and adds to the literature indicating the processes underlying helping ingroup members and outg”
Religion, spirituality, and altruism (2013, background): “Social psychologists have focused on prosocial behavior as a function of different contexts (Dovidio et al., 2006; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2010b).”
Perceived social impacts of tourism and quality-of-life: a new conceptual model (2020, background): “In the social psychology literature, pro-social behaviour is a widely studied concept (Dovidio et al., 2017).”
An fMRI investigation of empathy for 'social pain' and subsequent prosocial behavior (2011, background): “…behavior is generally defined as constituting actions that are helpful to others (e.g., helping, sharing, comforting, rescuing; Batson, 1998; Dovidio et al., 2006), and here we specifically focused on a subset of prosocial behaviors that were: (a) directed toward the observed victim (as…”