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This book was inspired by an intimate, stimulating, intellectually enrich ing conference that took place in Poland. However, the book is not a conference report. Rather, at the time of the conference, participants agreed that it would be worthwhile to create a volume representing the international state of knowledge in pro social behavior, and many of them agreed to write chapters. This volume is the outcome. The book contains chapters by outstanding researchers and scholars who have made substantial contributions to some aspect of scholarship about pro social behavior-helpfulness, generosity, kindness, coopera tion, or other behavior that benefits people. The book concerns itself with how prosocial behavior comes about and what influences contrib ute to or inhibit it; how prosocial behavior, or values and other personal characteristics that promote prosocial behavior, develop; how socializa tion, peer interaction, and other experiences contribute to development; and with the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences of re ceiving help. Some chapters directly, and a number of them implicitly, concern themselves with applications of knowledge about prosocial be havior, particularly with the question of how cooperation and behavior that benefits other people can be promoted. The purpose of the book is. in part to show where the field stands and what knowledge we have accumulated, and in part to suggest fu ture directions and advance the field. It is a truly international book, with contributors from most countries where research on pro social be havior is being conducted.
List of contents
I General Theoretical Approaches.- 1 American Study of Helping Behavior: What? Why? And Where?.- 2 Notes Toward an Interactionist-Motivational Theory of the Determinants and Development of (Pro)Social Behavior.- 3 Spatial Organization of a Cognitive System and Intrinsic Prosocial Motivation.- II Developmental Aspects.- 4 Roots, Motives, And Patterns In Children's Prosocial Behavior.- 5 Prosocial Behavior in the Preschool Years: Methodological and Conceptual Issues.- 6 Parent Discipline, Moral Internalization, and Development of Prosocial Motivation.- 7 Focus of Attention and Altruism: Endocentric and Exocentric Sources of Altruistic Behavior.- 8 Regulatory Theory of Personality and the Development of Prosocial Behaviors.- 9 Development of Cooperation and Help-Seeking Activities: An Action Theoretical Approach.- 10 The Development of Capacity for Altruism as a Function of Object Relations Development and Vicissitudes.- III Determinants of Prosocial Behavior.- 11 Internalized Values as Motivators of Altruism.- 12 Freedom of Choice and Moral Behavior.- 13 The Altruistic Personality: Evidence from Laboratory, Naturalistic, and Self-Report Perspectives.- 14 Competence and Helping: Notes Toward a Model.- 15 Altruism and Patterns of Social Interaction.- 16 The Helpfulness of Urban Villagers.- IV Help Seeking and Help Receiving.- 17 Help Seeking and Social Interaction: Person, Situation, and Process Considerations.- 18 Some Paradoxical Status Implications of Helping And Being Helped.- 19 The Darker Side of Helping: The Social Dynamics of Helping and Cooperation.- 20 Effects Of Donor-Recipient Relationships On Recipients' Reactions To Aid.- V Applications Of Knowledge About Prosocial Behavior.- 21 Enhancing Prosocial Behavior Through Cooperative Learning in the Classroom.-22 Community as Target: A New Perspective to Research on Prosocial Behavior.- 23 Bystander Intervention in Crimes: Research and Application.- 24 Learning to "Give To Unnamed Strangers": The Process of Commitment to Regulär Blood Donation.- Author Index.
