Random acts of kindness help others—but they're good for the helpers, too 💗 Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW Prosocial behaviors are actions meant to help others, like sharing or comforting. Helping ...

Parental Behavioral Control, Psychological Resilience, Gratitude, Prosocial Behavior Share and Cite: Wu, H. (2026) The Impact of Parental Behavioral Control on High School Students’ Prosocial Behavior ...

Shortly after they turn 1, most babies begin to help others, whether by handing their mother an object out of her reach or giving a sibling a toy that has fallen. Researchers have long studied how ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Christi Bergin has devoted 40 years of her life to helping teachers and their students. Throughout her career, she’s noticed two simultaneous trends in the field that seem to be ...

Collective pro-social behavior can be induced by the right messaging. Source: jasperai/OpenAI When confronted with frequent news of inhumane behavior, people often want to create change for the better ...

Psychologists are finding that simply spotting Batman in a public space can nudge people toward small acts of generosity, from picking up trash to helping a stranger. The emerging research suggests ...

Prosocial behaviors are the voluntary actions we take to help others with no expected benefit for ourselves. Actions can be seemingly insignificant such as correcting a buddy’s uniform infraction or ...

Source: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Prosocial behavior such as helping or sharing with others not only facilitates interaction and cooperation between people and groups, but indeed seems ...

Researchers from University of Kentucky, Arizona State University, and Pennsylvania University published a new Journal of Marketing article that explores scenarios where people take on an ambassador ...

Lin, Stephanie C., Julian Zlatev, and Dale T. Miller. "Moral Traps: When Self-serving Attributions Backfire in Prosocial Behavior." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 70 (May 2017): 198–203.