Author: Unknown
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Keywords: prosocial, conducta
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8471123665
ISBN-13: 9788471123664

Author: Forrest B. Tyler
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: cultures, across, communities, prosocial, developing
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2007-09-27
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0387714847
ISBN-13: 9780387714844

Communities are basic vital social units that provide the contexts in which people learn to live together to their mutual benefit. They are crucial to providing a richer and more fulfilling framework than we currently have for understanding and improving the quality of life for individuals and groups alike. The author defines what exactly prosocial communities are, identifying its elements and relevant interrelationships, and providing the available evidence in support of those conclusions. This work shows why a prosocial community is essential to the accomplishment of the goals of community p

Author: Arnold P. Goldstein
Publisher: Research Press (IL)
Keywords: competencies, prosocial, teaching, curriculum, prepare
Number of Pages: 910
Published: 1999-08
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 087822419X
ISBN-13: 9780878224197

Authors:Robert A. Hinde, Jo Groebel,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: volume, behaviour, prosocial, cooperation
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1991-11-29
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 0521399998
ISBN-13: 9780521399999

In this book, prominent authors from disciplines as diverse as biology, philosophy, and the social sciences have assembled to consider the nature of cooperation and prosocial behavior at levels of social complexity ranging from the individual to the international. Successive sections cover key topics such as the relations between cooperation in animals and humans, the development of prosocial propensities in humans, aspects of the situation and of personality that increase the probability that individuals will behave prosocially, the relationships among trust, cooperation, and commitment, and

Author: Hans-Werner Bierhoff
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: modular, course, psychology, social, behaviour, prosocial
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-10-29
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0863777740
ISBN-13: 9780863777745

How can social bonds in society be strengthened? How do we learn and develop prosocial behaviour? This comprehensive textbook provides up-to-date coverage of the social phenomenon of prosocial behaviour, incorporating all the major developments in the fields of developmental and social psychology. The first section identifies different forms of prosocial behaviour, including estimates of prevalence in everyday situations and the controversy between biological and cultural perspectives as explanatory models of prosocial behaviour. The second and third sections focus on learning and development

Authors:Shane R. Thye, Edward J. Lawler,
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: group, processes, advances, groups, prosocial, behavior, altruism
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2009-04-17
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 1848555725
ISBN-13: 9781848555723

In this volume scholars from a variety of disciplines address a range of phenomena related to the general question of when people behave in an altruistic fashion. The specific topics addressed in this volume include how empathy induced altruism can actually be a threat to the some larger collective good, the role of egoism in the production and maintenance of social order, the basis of cooperation in social dilemmas, an evolutionary account of sex differences in the propensity to cooperate, a theoretical analysis of when individuals experience gratitude versus indebtedness in response to recei

Authors:Arnold P. Goldstein, Ellen McGinnis,
Publisher: Research Press
Keywords: teaching, prosocial, skills, perspectives, strategies, adolescent, new, skillstreaming
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1997-07-07
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 087822369X
ISBN-13: 9780878223695

This book is for use with middle and high school students. It shows how to teach 50 prosocial skills such as expressing feelings, apologizing, setting a goal, starting a conversation, and responding to failure. Skills are divided into six areas: Beginning Social Skills, Advanced Social Skills, Dealing with Feelings, Alternatives to Aggression, Dealing with Stress, and Planning Skills.