The psychology of prosocial behavior
Subtitle: group processes, intergroup relations, and helping
By: edited by Stefan Stürmer and Mark Snyder.
Contributors: Stürmer, Stefan.; Snyder, Mark.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781405178815; 9781405178808
Subjects: Social groups; Social psychology; Interpersonal relations; Helping behavior
Description: The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior provides original contributions that examine current perspectives and promising directions for future research on helping behaviors and related core issues. With an emphasis on helping in the context of social groups and large organizations, this volume presents a new and distinctive perspective that links research on prosocial behavior to interventions designed to foster helping in real-world settings. -back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The psychological study of group processes and intergroup relations in prosocial behavior : past, present, future / Stefan Stürmer and Mark Snyder; title: The tribal instinct hypothesis : evolution and the social psychology of intergroup relations / Mark van Vugt and Justin H. Park; title: Helping "us" versus "them" : towards a group-level theory of helping and altruism within and across group boundaries / Stefan Stürmer and Mark Snyder; title: Stigmas and prosocial behavior : are people reluctant to help stigmatized persons? / John B. Pryor ... [et al.]; title: The strategic side of out-group helping / Esther van Leeuwen and Susanne Täuber; title: Discrimination against out-group members in helping situations / Donald A. Saucier, Jessica L. McManus, and Sara J. Smith; title: Receiving help : consequences for the recipient / Samer Halabi and Arie Nadler; title: Turning to others in times of change : social identity and coping with stress / Jolanda Jetten ... [et al.]; title: Volunteering across the life span : doing well by doing good / Jane Allyn Piliavin; title: Perspective taking and intergroup helping / Mark H. Davis and Angela T. Maitner; title: Recategorization and prosocial behavior : common in-group identity and a dual identity / John F. Dovidio ... [et al.]; title: Groups, identities, and bystander behavior : how group processes can be used to promote helping / Mark Levine and Clare Cassidy; title: Influences of psychological sense of community on voluntary helping and prosocial action / Allen M. Omoto and Mark Snyder; title: Empowering the volunteer organization : what volunteer organizations can do to recruit, content, and retain volunteers / Naomi Ellemers and Edwin J. Boezeman; title: Interpersonal and intergroup helping relations as power relations : implications for real-world helping / Arie Nadler; title: Beyond help : a social psychology of collective solidarity and social cohesion / Stephen Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam; title: Cross-group helping : perspectives on why and why not / Stephen C. Wright and Norann T. Richard; title: Helping disadvantaged out-groups challenge unjust inequality : the role of group-based emotions / Aarti Iyer and Colin Wayne Leach.