The research focused on the exploration of gender differences in interaction with infant siblings in the home and the materna] socialization of baby care in girls as opposad to boys. Observations were made of 20 families, each with 2 parents, an infant under the age of 12 months, and an older child between the ages of 46 and 102 months. Five families were selected from each of the four possible...

Research on narrative persuasion has yet to investigate whether this process influences behavior. The current study explored whether: (1) a narrative could persuade participants to donate to a charity, a prosocial, behavioral decision; (2) psychophysiological metrics can delineate the differences between donation/non-donation behaviors; and (3) donation behavior can be correlated with measures ...

The aim of this research was to design an intervention program for adolescents and to assess its effects on social and personal development factors. The study used a pretestintervention-posttest design with control groups. 174 subjects participated as sample, aged 12 to 14 (125 were experimental subjects and 49 were control subjects). Before and after the program, six instruments were administe...

The ability of the emotion gratitude to shape costly prosocial behavior was examined in three studies employing interpersonal emotion inductions and requests for assistance. Study 1 demonstrated that gratitude increases efforts to assist a benefactor evenwhen such efforts are costly (i.e., hedonically negative), and that this increase differs from the effects of a general positive affective sta...

People cry for various reasons and in numerous situations, some involving highly moral aspects such as altruism or beauty. At the same time, criers have been found to be evaluated more morally upright—they are perceived honest, reliable, sincere than non-criers. The current project provides a first ...

Abstract Prosocial behaviors benefit others, but what benefits do they hold for those who enact them? Prosociality can enhance the actor’s well-being, yet whether it is one’s sense of happiness or meaning that impacted, and how this plays out in everyday life, has received limited attention. We address gap knowledge by examining prosociality related to daily across two large diary studies count...

Researchers at a midsized public northeastern university evaluated the efficacy of a poster campaign to determine if students increase their knowledge of prosocial bystander behaviors and willingness to intervene in instances of sexual violence after viewing a series of campaign posters where student actors model appropriate bystander behaviors. During the last week of the campaign, undergradua...

The purpose of this study is to explore changes in belief orientation during treatment and the impact of increased daily spiritual experiences (DSE) on adolescent treatment response. One-hundred ninety-five adolescents court-referred to a 2-month residential treatment program were assessed at intake and discharge. Forty percent of youth who entered treatment as agnostic or atheist identified th...

The field of social psychology has long investigated the role of prosocial bystanders in assisting crime victims and helping in emergency situations. This research has usually been experimental and has established important principles about the conditions under which individuals will choose to engage in prosocial bystander behaviors. More recently, interest has grown in applying this work to th...