Explore: Prosocial Behavior

Prosocial behavior is a social behavior that "benefit[s] other people or society as a whole", "such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering"

Helping behavior refers to voluntary actions intended to help others, with reward regarded or disregarded. It is a type of prosocial behavior (voluntary

into behavior works, and why. This model suggests a link between positive media with prosocial behavior and violent media with aggressive behavior, and

is an example of behavioral management approach that seeks to develop prosocial behavior. In this model, socially appropriate behaviors are encouraged and

MDMA increases sociability, prosociality, and emotional empathy in humans. In animals, MDMA induced prosocial behavior and elevations in circulating

students did. Ego depletion has also been implicated in guilt and prosocial behavior. The feeling of guilt, while unpleasant, is necessary to facilitate

Carlo, Gustavo, eds. (2014). "1 The Study of Prosocial Behavior: Past, Present, and Future". Prosocial Development. Oxford University Press. pp. 3–16

Also, adolescents were likely to display prosocial behaviors that were similar to the consistent behaviors of the group they were in. An adolescent's

progression of morality. Empathy causes people to be more prominent in prosocial behavior as discussed earlier. Without empathy, there would be no humanity

with, and will not cause, increases in aggression and decreases in prosocial behavior. Other research argues that there are no such effects of violent video