An experimental study of prosocial motivation among criminals

an examination of developmental dyslexia among iranian efl second graders

چکیده رساله/پایان نامه: این تحقیق جهت بررسی تاثیر نارسا خوانی در یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجه در میان دانش اموزان ایرانی مقطع دوم راهنمایی طراحی شده است. ده نفر از دانش اموزان ایرانی مقطع دوم راهنمایی و ده نفر از دانش اموزان غیر نارسا خوان همان مقطع برای انجام این تحقیق انتخاب شدند. تمام شرکت کنندگان توسط ازمون زبان انگلیسی ای که برای این هدف ساخته شده و متشکل از بخشهای خواندن ام...

Malingering Among Criminals

Running head: MORAL MOTIVATION, SYMPATHY, AND PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR Children’s Moral Motivation, Sympathy, and Prosocial Behavior

Two studies investigated the role of children’s moral motivation and sympathy in prosocial behavior. Study 1 measured other-reported prosocial behavior, and selfand other-reported sympathy. Moral motivation was assessed by emotion attributions and moral reasoning following hypothetical transgressions in a representative longitudinal sample of Swiss 6-year-old children (N = 1,273). Prosocial beh...

Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors

Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy interventions. We conducted a large-scale intervention study among dyads of blood donors to investigate whether social ties lead to motivational spillovers in the decision to donate. The intervention i...

Keeping Pace with Criminals: An Extended Study of Designing Patrol Allocation against Adaptive Opportunistic Criminals

Game theoretic approaches have recently been used to model the deterrence effect of patrol officers’ assignments on opportunistic crimes in urban areas. One major challenge in this domain is modeling the behavior of opportunistic criminals. Compared to strategic attackers (such as terrorists) who execute a well-laid out plan, opportunistic criminals are less strategic in planning attacks and mo...