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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"helping behavior"”.
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Helping Behavior in a Globalized Community
… of how individuals participate in voluntary helping behavior in their locality. Interview data, brief economic and cultural examination of the area, and my observations as a resident of the Upper 9 th Ward inform analysis. The experiences of respondents suggest that there is a tension between …
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The Investigation of Helping Behavior in the Virtual World
… pressures in order to help a victim of bullying behavior. This research is based on findings from a study by Dr. Elizabeth Midlarsky on rescuers and bystanders during the Holocaust (Midlarsky, Fagin-Jones and Nemeroff, 2006). The present study examined the differences in personality variables of …
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Attitudes, Normative Beliefs, and Altruism: Help for Helping Behavior
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Hurting to Helping: Regret as a Potential Motivator of Helping Behavior
… people’s motivation to engage in prosocial behaviors. Even negatively-valenced emotions, like sadness, guilt, and shame, have been shown to motivate prosocial behaviors. Exploratory analyses of a previous study indicated that regret may also motivate increased prosocial intentions, but no …
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Ultimate and Proximate Explanations of Helping Behavior in the Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
… because of the helper's own presence or because helping increases the production of fledglings. I demonstrate that breeder survival increases in the presence of helpers and additional young. Helpers may also reduce the workload of the breeder, and this may increase breeder survival as well. I …
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Interpersonal Dynamics of Volunteers for a Simulated Prison Study, General Psychological Study, and a Helping-Behavior Study
… volunteer for a generic psychological study or a helpingbehavior study. The results indicated full support for all of the hypotheses and that the SPE was likely confounded by the recruitment technique used by the SPE creators, which elicited only those participants who have been shown in this …
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Moral Outrage Moderates the Relationships Between System Perception, System Justification, and Intergroup Helping Behavior: A Multigroup Approach
<p>Helping behavior is proposed to be a universal experience where a wide range of behaviors are used to benefit another person or group (Aknin et al., 2013; Nadler, 2002). Often these behaviors are motivated by positive values or emotions (Dovidio et al., 2012). However, when social status is …
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Perilaku menolong (helping behavior) ditinjau dari latar belakang jenis kelamin dan bias kelompok agama pada siswa SMA A. Wahid Hasyim Tebuireng
… & Penner (2001), mendefinisikan menolong (helping) sebagai suatu tindakan yang bertujuan menghasilkan keuntungan terhadap pihak lain. Perilaku menolong dapat berupa tindakan membantu orang lain berupa bantuan tenaga/usaha dan waktu (favor), bantuan berupa materi/dana (donation), atau …
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A Social-Cognitive Assessment of Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is essential to the smooth functioning of organizations. A vast amount of research examining OCB has established the benefits of such behavior to businesses. In addition, individual- and organizational-level antecedents of citizenship behavior have been …
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The moderating role of cultural orientation on emotional and behavioral outcomes of helping others
… common notion that people always feel good after helping others. Using a cross-cultural lens, it refines our understanding of previously documented emotional boost after helping. Helping others in individualistic cultures has been conceptualized more as a choice (vs. obligation), whereas in …
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Gamifying RPI: The benefits of avatars and knowledge-induced coworker familiarity
… competition induced by leaderboards may reduce helping behavior, I also examine the effect of humanlike avatars on subsequent helping behavior toward coworkers on unrelated tasks (i.e., others-focused effort). Using an experiment, I find that representing employees with humanlike avatars …
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Motivation and productivity in small, task-oriented groups
… TM scores have been used successfully to predict helping behavior among group members. Members high in TM were more helpful than members low in TM. Group cohesion level and group norms have also been proposed as important helping behavior predictors. The present experiment was designed to examine …
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The effects of racial group membership and cognitive load on empathy and helping behaviour
… evidence that cognitive load may also attenuate helping behavior. Research is yet to establish the influence of both racial group membership and cognitive load on empathy and helping, however. In this study, a sample of 104 women (52 Black and 52 White) completed either a Low or a High cognitive …
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The Empathy Game: How Imposing a Cost to Helping Affects an Individual's Behavior
Empathetic behavior is unlikely to occur when a cost is imposed on helping. Prior research has examined reciprocity, altruism, and trust in simple game experiments while alluding to empathy. We expand this research by designing an experiment that takes away a common aspect of simple trust games: …
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Assessing public opinion toward homelessness in the United States
… characteristics and an individual's feelings and helping behavior towards the homeless population. This study also distinguishes between the way urban residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness with the way that rural residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness. …
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Development of a new measure of helping at work
In this thesis, helping behavior is defined as extra role behaviors that an employee performs voluntarily and contributes to organizational effectiveness such as improved productivity and co-worker performance (Organ, 1988). People who help others at work tend to experience increased job …
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Towards an implicit measure of religiousness-spirituality.
… well-validated explicit measures and pro-social behavior. In Study 1, undergraduates (n = 109) at a private institution completed self-report measures of a broad spectrum of religiousness-spirituality and related constructs (i.e. religious fundamentalism, authoritarianism, empathy). Participants …
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Hopeful feelings : inducing the feelings of hope and examining its social and cognitive effects
… predict greater global focus and prosocial behaviors. While Study 5 found that hope condition lead to greater global focus compared to a neutral condition, this was not replicated in Study 6. Study 7 found that the hope condition led to a greater amount of helping behavior (but not …
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