Direct cost does not impact on young children’s spontaneous helping behavior

Direct cost does not impact on young children’s spontaneous helping behavior

The propensity of humans to engage in prosocial behavior is unlike that of any other species. Individuals will help others even when it comes at a cost to themselves, and even when the others are complete strangers. However, to date, scant empirical evidence has been forthcoming on young children's altruistic tendencies. To investigate this 45 4-year-olds were presented with a task in which the...

Investigating the Impact of Environmental Poverty on Criminal Behavior of Young People in Marginal Areas

This study was examined to investigate the impact of environmental poverty on the criminal behavior of young people in marginal areas. The population of this study included all the youths in the marginalized schools of Isfahan. Sampling was done randomly. The sample size includes 358 students in marginalized areas. For youth with high PC, significant factors included high levels of attitudes to...

On Helping Behavior in Cooperative Environments

This paper concerns the helping behavior in multi-agent systems. Helping actions represent an interesting and rich testbed for examining the reasons for cooperative behavior in multiagent systems. Starting from previous studies on multi-agent dependence relations, a basic definition of help is given, and some of the motivations for helping are briefly discussed. Moreover, an experimental enviro...

Does alcohol advertising impact on young people’s drinking?

The main theme for this issue of CentreLines is the controversial area of alcohol advertising and promotion. In Headspace NDRI Director Steve Allsop discusses some of the issues surrounding the relationship between alcohol promotion and hazardous drinking. In Issuing Forth, Rob Donovan, together with colleague Matthew Winter from Curtin’s School of Marketing, dispute the argument that alcohol a...

Cost shifting does not reduce the cost of health care.