Essays on Prosocial Behavior

People are naturally inclined to mimic. Mimicry has been observed across all cultures and ages in peculiar phenomena like contagious yawning or laughter. Chartrand and Bargh (1999) noted that people frequently imitate others’ posture and facial expressions unintentionally, and Bandura (1977) demonstrated the essential role...

In this literature review I am going to write about three articles which deal with how or rather on whom one should spend his or her money to maximize the happiness one receives from spending it. It is a topic which I think is rather...

The relationship established between prosocial behaviour and animal attitudes is one considered quite complex and contradictory. The goal of the study was to determine the relationship between prosocial behaviour and animal attitudes in a South African and non-South African population. A sample of 71 students...

Prosocial spending can be defined as the act of spending ones money and/or time on other people. The positive effect that prosocial spending has on wellbeing has been a widely researched phenomenon, and it seems as though many agree on their conclusions. The following essay...

Ever wondered ‘Why we react in a certain way to a particular stimuli?’ and ‘Why some people are more prone to helping one another and some not?’. A Classic Greek philosopher, Plato states that “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge”....

For any prosocial behavior to be effective and beneficial to others it is necessary to have communication, either to be influenced or to know the issue. After understanding a problem it is important to think critically in a non-biased way to effectively come up with...

“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”Culture is simply ‘the way of life’. It is the social behavior and norms found in the human societies. It has a wide domain of expressive forms like Art & Crafts, Music...