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Positive Social Behavior and Morality: Social and Personal Influences, Volume I presents the broad range of influences that encourage or inhibit people to behave positively towards others and how varied forms of positive behavior are determined. The book examines the various aspects of positive social behavior. It starts by providing the definition, significance, and relationship of positive or prosocial behavior to morality. Topics on why people behave prosocially; the determinants of people helping other people in physical distress; effects of harm doing on prosocial behavior; the limitations of current methods; the goals for future study in the field of prosocial behavior; and a theoretical model for predicting prosocial behavior are presented as well. Psychologists, sociologists, researchers, and students in the field of sociology and psychology will find this book interesting.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Positive Social Behavior and Morality: Social and Personal Influences
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Positive Behavior, Morality, and Human Nature
- Chapter 2. Personality, the Situation, and the Determination of Prosocial Behavior
- Chapter 3. Determinants of People Helping Other People in Physical Distress
- Chapter 4. Observing and Causing Harm to Others: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Consequences
- Chapter 5. Prosocial Behavior in Response to Varied Needs
- Chapter 6. Orientation to the Self and Others: The Effects of Positive and Negative Experiences, Thoughts, and Feelings
- Chapter 7. The Connection between Self and Others: Similarity, Attraction, and Common Group Membership
- Chapter 8. Exchange and Reciprocity in Positive and Negative Behavior
- Chapter 9. Cooperation and Intimate Relationships: Further Explorations in Human Transactions
- Chapter 10. Summary and Conclusions: The Determinants of Positive Behavior
- References
- Subject Index