Written by well known and highly respected researchers in the field, this text is the first of its kind: A single volume text designed to provide a broad overview of this important research area. his text is organized in a way that answers the most commonly asked questions about helping behavior, then in its final chapter asks the students to think critically about what they have learned. This final chapter poses a series of new questions that will demonstrate the dynamic and evolving nature of this field of study. These questions were suggested by gaps in research and suggestions by top researchers in the field who responded to requests for what they thought were the most important unanswered questions. Because the text is truly the result of the joint efforts of four major researchers, the treatment of all topics is balanced and even-handed; there is no ideological point of view taken.

The Social Psychology of Helping And Altruism

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dovidio, John F.

Penner, Louis A.

Schroeder, David A.

Piliavin, Jane A

Psychology & Counseling

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Social Psychology: A Contemporary Approach

Oxford University Press

Moving Beyond Self-Interest is an interdisciplinary volume that discusses cutting-edge developments in the science of caring for and helping others. In Part I, contributors raise foundational issues related to human caregiving. They present new theories and data to show how natural selection might have shaped a genuinely altruistic drive to benefit others, how this drive intersects with the attachment and caregiving systems, and how it emerges from a broader social engagement system made possible by symbiotic regulation of autonomic physiological states. In Part II, contributors propose a new neurophysiological model of the human caregiving system and present arguments and evidence to show how mammalian neural circuitry that supports parenting might be recruited to direct human cooperation and competition, human empathy, and parental and romantic love. Part III is devoted to the psychology of human caregiving. Some contributors in this section show how an evolutionary perspective helps us better understand parental investment in and empathic concern for children at risk for, or suffering from, various health, behavioral, and cognitive problems. Other contributors identify circumstances that differentially predict caregiver benefits and costs, and raise the question of whether extreme levels of compassion are actually pathological. The section concludes with a discussion of semantic and conceptual obstacles to the scientific investigation of caregiving. Part IV focuses on possible interfaces between new models of caregiving motivation and economics, political science, and social policy development. In this section, contributors show how the new theory and research discussed in this volume can inform our understanding of economic utility, policies for delivering social services (such as health care and education), and hypotheses concerning the origins and development of human society, including some of its more problematic features of nationalism, conflict, and war. The chapters in this volume help readers appreciate the human capacity for engaging in altruistic acts, on both a small and large scale.

Moving Beyond Self-Interest: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences

Brown, Stephanie L.

Brown, R. Michael

Mental Health

Social Psychology: Concepts and Applications

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

West Group

Psychology Research Companion

Bernstein, Douglas

Roy, Edward

Clarke–Stewart, Alison

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Study more effectively and improve your performance at exam time with this comprehensive guide. Written to work hand-in hand with PSYCHOLOGY, 8th Edition, this user-friendly guide includes a wide variety of learning tools to help you master the key concepts of the course.

Study Guide for Bernstein/Penner/Clarke-Stewart/Roy’s Psychology, 8th

Cengage Learning'

Bernstein, Douglas, Penner, Louis A., Clarke-Stewart, Alison, Roy, Edward

Fast Track to a 5 Preparing for the AP Psychology Examination: To Accompany Psychology 7th and 8th Editions

Wadsworth Publishing

Book by Berstein, Douglas A., Penner, Louis A., Clarke-Stewart, Alison, Roy, Edward J.

Psychology

Roy, Edward J.

Berstein, Douglas A.

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

The authors of this comprehensive, research-oriented text have rededicated themselves to exploring "the full range of psychology from cell to society, as free as possible from theoretical bias." The Sixth Edition emphasizes updates and improvements in applied psychology—such as new findings in organizational and forensic psychology; culture and human diversity; and behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology.
Written in a lively, contemporary style, Psychology offers a skillful balance of classic and contemporary topics. The extensive supplement package has been improved to provide complete learning and teaching solutions for instructors, students, and teaching assistants.
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Bernstein, Douglas A.

Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, and Roy's, Psychology strikes an ideal balance between classic and current research, and contains substantial material on culture and human diversity, as well as updated coverage of behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology. This text's complete learning program offers instructors, both experienced and novice, a "one-stop teaching" tool. In the Seventh Edition of this comprehensive, research-oriented text, the authors explore the full range of psychology, free from theoretical bias; blend conceptual discussion and description of research studies; foster scientific attitudes and help students learn to think critically; present lessons in a clear, accessible, and readable style; and demonstrate that psychology is an integrated discipline in which each subfield is linked to other subfields by common interests and overarching research questions.

Psychology, Seventh Edition

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