Modulating Emotion to Understand Prosocial Behavior

Temperament and Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Prosocial Reasoning, Emotion Regulation, and Emotion Lability

Objective: Our study aims to examine the mediating role of prosocial moral reasoning, emotion regulation, and emotion lability in the relation between temperamental characteristics and prosocial behaviour. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, a sample of 202 students were recruited through random multistage sampling method. The participants were interviewed about their prosocial moral reasonin...

Emotion Regulation Moderates the Association between Empathy and Prosocial Behavior

Theory and evidence suggest that empathy is an important motivating factor for prosocial behaviour and that emotion regulation, i.e. the capacity to exert control over an emotional response, may moderate the degree to which empathy is associated with prosocial behaviour. However, studies to date have not simultaneously explored the associations between different empathic processes and prosocial...

Emotion Contemplative/Emotion Training Reduces Negative Emotional Behavior and Promotes Prosocial Responses

The relation of moral emotion attributions to prosocial and antisocial behavior: a meta-analysis.

This meta-analytic review of 42 studies covering 8,009 participants (ages 4-20) examines the relation of moral emotion attributions to prosocial and antisocial behavior. A significant association is found between moral emotion attributions and prosocial and antisocial behaviors (d = .26, 95% CI [.15, .38]; d = .39, 95% CI [.29, .49]). Effect sizes differ considerably across studies and this het...

Behavior genetics of prosocial behavior

The field of quantitative genetics aims to understand how environmental and genetic factors independently and interactively shape behavioral traits in humans. This scientific approach has been applied to a wide variety of observed characteristics, or phenotypes, making this work relevant for all areas of psychology. To fully understand this body of work, we first need to introduce the quantitat...