Helping and Volunteering across Cultures: Determinants of Prosocial Behavior
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Helping and Volunteering across Cultures: Determinants of Prosocial Behavior
Why do people help others and what motivates them to engage in voluntary work? Are the psychological mechanisms that initiate prosocial behavior similar across cultures? In order to find answers for these questions, we give an overview of the prominent approaches to helping, and report findings of studies investigating informal spontaneous help and formal, planned forms of helping. A linchpin o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Online Readings in Psychology and Culture
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2307-0919
DOI: 10.9707/2307-0919.1118