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Effects of Prosocial Video Games on Resulting Prosocial Behaviors
<p>Past research indicates that prosocial video game play has a role in subsequent prosocial behaviors, affect, and accessibility of prosocial thoughts via the General Learning Model. The exposure time in this past research has varied widely, so an experiment that both replicates existing research …
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Religion, Rewards, and Prosocial Behavior
… have long argued that religion increases prosocial behavior, but results are equivocal. Recent findings on priming religious concepts seem to show that religion drives prosociality. But here I suggest that these studies confound religion with anticipated rewards. I present the results of a …
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DePUDS: Decentralized Prosocial Urban Development System
… This dissertation proposes the Decentralized Prosocial Urban Development System (DePUDS), a novel governance framework designed to overcome these shortcomings by empowering informed collective consensus and including the often-silent majority. DePUDS integrates decentralized technologies like …
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Relationship between prosocial moral reasoning, prosocial behavior, family functioning and social maturity in pre-primary school children
… differences are reflected in an increase in prosocial behavior. Thirty-eight pre-school boys and girls responded to four simple moral stories about helping and sharing. (Moral R.). All responses of the children were coded by the researcher and an independent coder. Assessment of the extent of …
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Misforecasting Positive Affective Responses to Prosocial Behavior
… the impact of affective misforecasting on prosocial behavior. More specifically, this research shows that with </p> <p> general everyday helping behaviors, consumers overestimate their positive affective responses, i.e., consumers have more positive affect when they think about helping than …
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Parent attachment and prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults : prosocial moral reasoning and respect for family as intervening mechanisms
… study was to examine the intervening roles of prosocial moral reasoning and respect for family in associations between parent attachment and prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults. Participants of this study included 281 Asian Indian young adults (60.5% female; M age [equals] 21.45 …
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Impact of Social Media on Prosocial Offline Outcomes
This dissertation consists of two essays studying how specific artifacts of social media platforms create conditions for improved offline outcomes for their users. The contemporary landscape of social media is marked by a burgeoning number of platforms and an ever-expanding user base, giving rise …
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Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children
… regret, this thesis also investigated prosocial risk taking (PSRT). PSRT was defined as taking a risk with the primary intention of benefitting a person other than oneself. Importantly, PSRT required a potential cost to one’s own outcomes, making it more likely that the intentions …
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The Effects of Tripartite Self-Construal on Prosocial Behavior
… Additional variables commonly associated with prosocial behavior, namely empathy (Eisenberg & Miller, 1987) and agreeableness (Graziano, Hasbashi, Sheese & Tobin, 2007; Caprara, Alessandri & Eisenberg, 2912), were also assessed. Undergraduate students (<em>N </em>= 119) completed self-report …
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A Psychometric Examination of Prosocial Behavior Across Cultural Contexts
… the focus of these interventions has been on prosocial behaviors, which are broadly defined as acts intended to benefit others above oneself and can include actions such as helping and cooperating (Batson & Powell, 2003). From a theoretical perspective, previous researchers (Piaget, 1932; …
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Prosocial development in the context of organized youth activities
… of this study was to determine the types of prosocial behaviors youth engage in within organized youth activities, and determine if these behaviors are related to developing increased prosocial reasoning and behavior in other contexts of their lives. A sample of youth participating in a …
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Black Nerds Pleasure Reading Choices: Race, Representation and Prosocial Skills
… their implications for race, representation and prosocial skills and values. Although there are common threads among all Blerds, this study adopts and adapts youth subcultural theory and intersectional theory to understand the unique interest, sense of belonging, morals and values of Blerds in …
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A Validation Study of the Competitive Prosocial/Aggression Continuum Task
… is to develop and validate the Competitive Prosocial/ Aggression Continuum Task (COMPACT), a portable competitive reaction time aggression paradigm that expands the range of available participant response sets to allow for prosocial responding by utilizing aversive and pleasant auditory …
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The Role of Emotion Regulation in Promoting Prosocial Sibling Relationships
… plays a predominant role in helping to establish prosocial interactions with family members and peers (Blair, Denham, Kochanoff, & Whipple, 2004). Conflicts between siblings represent a significant problem for many families. Because the sibling relationship is a potentially volatile one, the …
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Developmental and Situational Influences on Children's Understanding of Prosocial Behavior
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:22:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004251.pdf: 2555066 bytes, checksum: 8e47353d321390210a956f98e3794bc6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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The Effects of Empathy on Prosocial Behavior Among Middle School Children
… at SUNY Brockport. The definition of empathy, prosocial behaviors, and characteristics of bullies and victims was explored. The researcher‘s intent was to determine if empathy was a key component in maintaining children‘s positive relationships with each other, as well as decreasing bullying …
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The Effect of Stress on Prosocial Sharing Behavior in Young Adults
Prosocial behavior benefits both an individual and society. Sharing behavior is considered the most altruistic, due to individuals sacrificing time and resources without the expectation of reciprocation. A cost-benefit analysis may incorporate contextual factors influencing sharing behavior; thus, …
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