Liberal and Conservative Ideologies and their Perception in the Context of Prosocial BehaviorSummary: Persons with different political opinions (e.g., liberals versus conservatives) differ substantially with respect to the evaluation of the institutions ...
Zivilcourage and Helping Behavior: The Impact of Negative Social Consequences on the Perception of Prosocial BehaviorAbstract: In the present cross-cultural study, the mental representations of civil courage and helping behavior are compared. It is ...
Moral Courage: Definition, Findings, and InterventionsAbstract: Moral courage is an important topic for social psychology. Politicians often appeal to the general public to show more civil courageous behavior. Yet it is not clear what this behavior ...
Incentives are central to the reinforcement of behavior. In the context of group work, it is important to distinguish between individual and collective incentives as rewards. High reward interdependence should constitute an incentive for cooperation among ...
The Munich Civil Courage Instrument (MüZI): Development and ValidationAbstract. Civil courage and helping behavior represent subtypes of prosocial behavior. Whereas civil courage is associated with high negative social consequences, helping behavior is ...
The Influence of Culture on Early Child DevelopmentAbstract: Based on the assumption that culturally shaped social interactions form the basis for culture-specific development, we illustrate the influence of culture on the development ...
The present research reveals that people's implicit theories of civil courage and helping behavior are clearly distinguishable. In three studies, it was shown that situations requiring civil courage rather than helping assistance were perceived more ...
Abstract. The bystander effect reveals that people are less likely to help a person in need when others are present. We examined the impact of priming the concept of responsibility on the bystander effect in a field ...
Investigations of prejudice toward lesbians and gay men mostly rely on self-report questionnaires and rarely make use of indirect, behavioral measures. This field experiment investigated helping in an everyday face-to-face situation as an indicator of ...
The presence of others has long been known to have an effect on people’s decisions to engage in more helping behavior, but relatively few studies have examined the interaction between the observation of the helping act and various personality traits of ...
On a between-subjects (Experiment 1A) and within-subjects (Experiment 1B) basis, participants indicated a belief that attractive and unattractive targets engage in less actual helping behavior than moderately attractive targets. In Experiment 2, ...
The bystander effect refers to the phenomenon that the presence of others inhibits helping behavior. The present research examines the idea that the bystander effect reverses when effective helping would require many help-givers. In a between-participants ...