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Prosocial behaviour [1] is a social behavior that "benefit[s] other people or society as a whole", [2] "such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering". The person may or may not intend to benefit others; the behaviour's prosocial benefits are often only calculable after the fact.
The secondary items can be used for differentiating between the motivations to maximize the joint outcome and to minimize the difference in outcomes (inequality aversion) among prosocial subjects. The SVO Slider Measure has been shown to be more reliable than previously used measures, and yields SVO scores on a continuous scale.
The Scrooge Effect is a sensation that shows the impact of TMT on prosocial behavior. [2] TMT proposes that existential anxiety is triggered by reminders of mortality, [10] like those felt by Scrooge. People frequently look to their cultural worldview and look for ways to reinforce their significance within it to diminish this anxiety. [2]
Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, ... and prosocial behaviors rather than anti-social behaviors. [19] ...
However, empirical support for parents' role in fostering pro-social behavior is mixed. [17] For example, some researchers found a positive relation between the parent's use of induction and children's pro-social behavior, [18] and others found no correlation between parent's adoption of punitive techniques and children's pro-social behavior. [7]
A social norm is a shared standard of acceptable behavior by a group. [1] Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into rules and laws. [2]
Trust in reciprocity takes into consideration three different factors: the individual’s risk preferences (whether or not the person has a tendency to accept risks in trust decisions), their social preferences (whether the individual shows prosocial tendencies or betrayal aversion), and lastly, their beliefs about the other’s trustworthiness ...
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