This book is about the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and on humans. Although cooperation and altruism are often thought of as ways to attenuate competition and aggression within groups, or are…
This book is divided into five parts, each providing background and evidence from different perspetives and disciplines, that cooperation and/or altruistic behavior are pivotal, and central components to nonhuman primate and human social existence. Each part begins with a short …
This book is about the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and on humans. Although cooperation and altruism are often thought of as ways to attenuate competition and aggression within groups, or are…
The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior provides original contributions that examine current perspectives and promising directions for future research on helping behaviors and related core issues. Covers contributions which deal explicitly with interventions designed to foster out-…
With an emphasis on helping in the context of social groups and large organizations, this volume presents a new and distinctive perspective that links research on prosocial behaviour to interventions designed to foster helping in real world settings.