The author discusses the role of an animal research facility trainer in helping to teach laboratory animal facility staff how to recognize negative behavior patterns, manage grief, and help to prevent feelings of guilt.

Data from interviews with 17 families who have a member with mental retardation and problem behavior were reported. The interview was focused on the families' definition of problem behavior, current challenges they face, and successful approaches for helping individuals with problem behavior and their families as well as suggestions from families about what kinds of information they believe wou...

Individual Citizenship Behavior: The Mediator between Teachers’ Academic Optimism and Students’ Academic Achievement     H. Abbaasiyaan, Ph.D.* M. Rezaaveisi**   It is assumed that students’ academic achievement can improve if teachers’ academic optimism increases. However, this relationship seems to be mediated by individual citizenship behavior. Wi...

Training employees to become image ambassadors is an important manifestation of organization’s internal branding. However, most tourism destination marketing studies consider external image-building and pay little attention the brand ambassador behavior members. This study investigates 208 front-line in two tourist attractions constructs a structural equation model including workplace friendshi...

Human prosociality is marked by the versatility with which we help across various contexts. New research highlights that this capacity emerges early in human ontogeny. In this article, I review evidence showing that young children’s helping is both flexible and robust, based upon inferential social-cognitive capacities and prosocial motivations. Then I discuss the possible evolutionary function...

The Role of Personal, Organizational, and Technological Factors in Predicting Teachers’ Beliefs about Knowledge Sharing M. Bohlool R. Hosseyngholizaadeh, Ph.D. M. Karami, Ph.D. To explore the role of personal, organizational, and technological factors in predicting teachers’ beliefs about knowledge sharing, a sample of 173 Rashtkhaaree teachers was randomly sele...