Staub Positive Social Behavior and Morality

Social and Personal Influences
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6701-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 506 Seiten, Web PDF

Positive Social Behavior and Morality: Social and Personal Influences, Volume I presents the broad range of influences that encourage or inhibit people to behave positively towards others and how varied forms of positive behavior are determined. The book examines the various aspects of positive social behavior. It starts by providing the definition, significance, and relationship of positive or prosocial behavior to morality. Topics on why people behave prosocially; the determinants of people helping other people in physical distress; effects of harm doing on prosocial behavior; the limitations of current methods; the goals for future study in the field of prosocial behavior; and a theoretical model for predicting prosocial behavior are presented as well. Psychologists, sociologists, researchers, and students in the field of sociology and psychology will find this book interesting.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Staub, Ervin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Positive Social Behavior
and Morality: Social and Personal Influences;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;12
6;Acknowledgments;16
7;Chapter 1. Positive Behavior, Morality, and Human Nature;20
7.1;Prosocial Behavior: Definition, Significance, and Relationship to Morality;21
7.2;Morality and Human Nature;29
7.3;Genetic Origins of Altruism;44
8;Chapter 2. Personality, the Situation, and the Determination of Prosocial Behavior;58
8.1;Why People Behave Prosocially;61
8.2;A Theoretical Model for Predicting Prosocial Behavior;64
8.3;Other Personality Influences on Goal Activation and Behavior;73
8.4;Supporting Research;77
8.5;Classes of Influences on Prosocial Behavior;88
9;Chapter 3. Determinants of People Helping Other People in Physical Distress;92
9.1;The Early Research of Latané and Darley;93
9.2;The Influence of Others;96
9.3;Stimulus Characteristics That Affect Helping;124
9.4;Spontaneous (or Impulsive) Helping;133
9.5;Temporary States of the Actor, Stimulus Overload, Urban-Rural Helping, and Personality;135
9.6;Summary of Situational Influences;140
9.7;Personality and Helping Others in Physical Need;141
9.8;The Influence of Combinations of Personal Characteristics and of Situations;146
10;Chapter 4. Observing and Causing Harm to Others: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Consequences;154
10.1;Empathy and Prosocial Behavior;154
10.2;Just World, Devaluation, and Aggression;170
10.3;Harmdoing Trangression, and Their Consequences;189
10.4;Conclusions, Issues, and Limitations of Research;211
11;Chapter 5. Prosocial Behavior in Response to Varied Needs;216
11.1;Social Influence;217
11.2;Stimulus Influence;244
11.3;Decision Making, Personal Norms, and Helping Behavior;261
11.4;Individual Characteristics and Helping Behavior;272
12;Chapter 6. Orientation to the Self and Others: The Effects of Positive and Negative Experiences, Thoughts, and Feelings;296
12.1;The Effects of Success and Failure, Moods, and Self-Concern on Positive Behavior;297
12.2;The Psychological Consequences That Mediate the Effects of Positive and Negative Experiences and States;314
13;Chapter 7. The Connection between Self and Others: Similarity, Attraction, and Common Group Membership;332
13.1;Conditions That Affect the Bond between the Self and Others;334
14;Chapter 8. Exchange and Reciprocity in Positive and Negative Behavior;354
14.1;The Nature of Social Exchange;355
14.2;Reciprocity and Equity in Social Exchange;359
15;Chapter 9. Cooperation and Intimate Relationships: Further Explorations in Human Transactions;400
15.1;Determinants of Cooperation;404
15.2;Inducing Cooperation and Its Consequences;408
15.3;The Development and Maintenance of Intimate Relationships;413
15.4;Relationships: Their Formation and Nature;414
15.5;Self-Disclosure;418
15.6;Principles of Interaction in Extended Relationships;428
15.7;A Model of Interpersonal Relationships;431
16;Chapter 10. Summary and Conclusions: The Determinants of Positive Behavior;436
16.1;Limitations of Our Knowledge: Future Goals;436
16.2;How Does Positive Behavior (Or Its Absence) Come About?;441
16.3;The Influence of Cultures;448
17;References;452
18;Subject Index;484