Development and Maintenance of Prosocial Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. General Theoretical Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Janusz Reykowski

      Pages 3-4

   3. American Study of Helping Behavior

      • Daniel Bar-Tal

      Pages 5-27

   4. Notes toward an Interactionist-Motivational Theory of the Determinants and Development of (Pro)Social Behavior

      • Ervin Staub

      Pages 29-49

   5. Spatial Organization of a Cognitive System and Intrinsic Prosocial Motivation

      • Janusz Reykowski

      Pages 51-74

3. Developmental Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Introduction

      • Ervin Staub

      Pages 77-80

   3. Roots, Motives, and Patterns in Children’s Prosocial Behavior

      • Marian Radke-Yarrow, Carolyn Zahn-Waxler

      Pages 81-99

   4. Prosocial Behavior in the Preschool Years

      • Nancy Eisenberg, Ellen Cameron, Kelly Tryon

      Pages 101-115

   5. Parent Discipline, Moral Internalization, and Development of Prosocial Motivation

      • Martin L. Hoffman

      Pages 117-137

   6. Focus of Attention and Altruism

      • Jerzy Karylowski

      Pages 139-154

   7. Regulatory Theory of Personality and the Development of Prosocial Behaviors

      • Grazyna Kochanska

      Pages 155-176

   8. Development of Cooperation and Help-Seeking Activities

      • Louis Oppenheimer, Jan Heller

      Pages 177-200

   9. The Development of Capacity for Altruism as a Function of Object Relations Development and Vicissitudes

      • Ruth Sharabany

      Pages 201-222

4. Determinants of Prosocial Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Introduction

      • Janusz Reykowski, Jerzy Karylowski

      Pages 225-228

   3. Internalized Values as Motivators of Altruism

      • Shalom H. Schwartz, Judith A. Howard

      Pages 229-255

   4. Freedom of Choice and Moral Behavior

      • Miroslaw Kofta

      Pages 257-269

   5. The Altruistic Personality

      • J. Philippe Rushton

      Pages 271-290

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.

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• Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  Ervin Staub

• School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  Daniel Bar-Tal

• Department of Psychology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA

  Jerzy Karylowski

• Department of Psychology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

  Janusz Reykowski

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