The current study, which focuses on the benign effects of disinhibition, was designed as a continuation of an earlier study conducted on the toxic effects of online disinhibition (LapidotLefler & Barak, 2012). Using a factorial design, the study examined the effects of three online situational factors—anonymity, invisibility, and lack of eye contact—on inducing self-disclosure and prosocial beh...

Prior research indicates that employees engage in organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) because of prosocial values, organizational concern, and impression management motives. Building upon and extending prior research, we investigate all 3 OCB motives by developing a categorization scheme to differentiate their distinctiveness and by building a contextualized argument regarding their int...

Bidirectional associations between sibling relationships and children's problem behaviors are robust, and links with prosocial behavior have also been reported. Using cross-lagged models, we were able to conservatively test temporal directions of links between positive and negative aspects of sibling relationships and children's prosocial behavior and conduct problems across a 3-year time span ...

Research has demonstrated that prosocial sharing is emotionally rewarding, which leads to further prosocial actions; such a positive feedback loop suggests a proximal mechanism of human's tendency to act prosocially. However, it leaves open a question as to how the emotional benefits from sharing develop in young children and whether sharing under pressure promotes happiness as well. The curren...

The paper traces the role of religion in contemporary criminology as well as reviewing the development of scholarly interest in religion within the field ofcriminology. We begin with a sys,tematic review of270 published studies to better understand the state of the literature examining the relationship between religion and crime. Our systematic review provides support for the notion that religi...

The general aim of this paper is to form and develop prosocial behaviors in order prevent school failure promote a unified positive environment, with no social exclusion, the purpose improving students’ academic results. Recent research shows that educational institutions should concentrate not only on cognitive development but also their socio-emotional skills. In doing so, teachers consistent...

OBJECTIVE School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) is a universal prevention strategy currently implemented in >16,000 schools across the United States. SWPBIS intends to reduce students' behavior problems by altering staff behaviors and developing systems and supports to meet children's behavioral needs. The current study reports intervention effects on child behavio...

25 Lack of self-control has been suggested to facilitate norm-transgressing behaviors because of 26 the operation of automatic selfish impulses. Previous research, however, has shown that 27 people having a high moral identity may not show such selfish impulses when their self28 control resources are depleted. In the present research, we extended this effect to prosocial 29 behavior. Moreover, ...