The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior

Edited by David A. Schroeder and William G. Graziano

Oxford Library of Psychology

Takes both basic and applied approaches to the domain of prosocial behavior.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the domain for newcomers to the field.
Covers a broad spectrum of prosocial-behavior research.
Oxford Library of Psychology series.

The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior

Edited by David A. Schroeder and William G. Graziano

Description

The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior provides a comprehensive review of the current literature on when and why people act to benefit others. It provides a comprehensive overview of the field to give both the casual reader and the neophyte to the field some perspective about fundamental questions (what, why, when, and who) relative to prosocial behavior. Taking a multi-level approach, the chapters represent the broad spectrum of this multi-faceted domain. Topics range from micro-level analyses involving evolutionary and comparative psychological factors to macro-level applications, such as reducing intergroup conflicts and ethnic genocide. Between these extremes, the contributors—all internationally recognized in their field—offer their perspectives on developmental processes that may predispose individuals to empathize with and respond to the needs of others, individual differences that seem to interact with situational demands to promote helping, and the underlying motivations of those helping others. They explain volunteerism, intragroup cooperation, and intergroup cooperation to move the analysis from the individual to group-level phenomena. They extend the consideration of this topic to include support of pro-environmental actions, means to encourage participation in medical clinical trials, and the promotion of world peace. The ways that gender, interpersonal relationships, race, and religion might affect decisions to give aid and support to others are also addressed. The final chapter offers a unique view of prosocial behavior that encourages researchers and readers to take an even broader consideration of the field to search for a prosocial consilience.

The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior

Edited by David A. Schroeder and William G. Graziano

Oxford Library of Psychology

Introduction
1. The Field of Prosocial Behavior: An Introduction and Overview
David Schroeder & Bill Graziano
Part One: Prosocial Behavior at the Micro-Level
2. The Evolutionary Psychology of Human Prosociality: Adaptations, Mistakes, and Byproducts
Pat Barclay & Mark van Vugt
3. Prosocial Primates
Frans de Waal
4. The Economics of Prosocial Behavior
Erik van Dijk
5. The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Human Helping and Sharing
Felix Warneken & Michael Tomasello
6. The Development of Prosocial Behavior
Nancy Eisenberg, Natalie D. Eggum & Tracy L. Spinrad
7. Morality and Prosocial Judgments and Behavior
Eliot Turiel
8. The Contextually Grounded Nature of Prosocial Behavior: A Multiscale, Embodied Approach to Morality
J. Scott Jordan & Eric Wesselmann
9. Terror Management and Prosocial Behavior: A Theory of Self-Protective Altruism
Gilad Hirschberger
10. Culture and Prosocial Behavior
Irina Feygina & P. J. Henry
11. An Attachment Perspective on Prosocial Attitudes and Behavior
Mario Mikulincer & Phil Shaver
12. Personality and Prosocial Behavior
Bill Graziano & Meara Habashi
Part Two: Prosocial Behavior at the Meso-Level
13. The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis
Dan Batson, David Lishner & Eric Stocks
14. Empathy and Prosocial Behavior
Mark Davis
15. The Other Side of the Helping Paradigm: Seeking and Receiving Help
Arie Nadler
16. Understanding Prosocial Behavior Requires Understanding Relational Context
Margaret Clark, Erica Boothby, Elizabeth Clark-Polner & Harry T. Reis
17. Functional Motives and Functional Consequences of Prosocial Behavior
Stephanie Brown & Robert Cialdini
18. Prosocial Behavior in Close Relationships: An Interdependence Approach
Chris Agnew & Benjamin Le
19. Beyond the Damsel in Distress: Gender Differences and Similarities in Enacting Prosocial Behavior
Amanda Diekman & Emily K. Clark
20. Race and Prosocial Behavior
Don Saucier
21. Prosocial Behavior in Later Life
Liz Midlarsky & Eva Kahana
22. Stigma: Implications for Helping Behavior
John Pryor
Part Three: Prosocial Behavior at the Macro-Level
23. Volunteerism and Community Involvement: Antecedents, Experiences, and Consequences of the Person and the Situation
Arthur A. Stukas, Mark Snyder, & Gil Clary
24. Health and Well-being Consequences of Formal Volunteering
Jane Piliavin & Erica Siegl
25. Determinants of Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Craig Parks
26. Justice and Intragroup Cooperation
Tom Tyler
27. Intergroup Cooperation
Jack Dovidio & Jillian C. Banfield
28. Tolerance: An Elusive but Fundamental Aspect of Sociality
Anton Dijker
Part Four: New Directions in Prosocial Behavior: Extensions of Prosocial Processes
29. Religion and Prosociality
Jo-Ann Tsang, Wade Rowatt, & Azim Shariff
30. Prosocial Behavior and Environmental Action
Jessica M. Nolan & P. Wesley Schultz
31. Prosocial Behavior in Cancer Research: Patient Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials
Lou Penner, Mark Manning, Susan Eggly, & Terrance Albrecht
32. Peace Psychology and Prosocial Behavior
Daniel J. Christie & Cristina J. Montiel
33. The Roots of Helping, Heroic Rescue, and Resistance to and the Prevention of Mass Violence: Active Bystandership in Extreme Times and in Building Peaceful Societies
Ervin Staub
Conclusion
34. Gaining the Big Picture: Prosocial Behavior as an End Product
William G. Graziano & David A. Schroeder

The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior

Edited by David A. Schroeder and William G. Graziano

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Edited by David A. Schroeder and Edited by William G. Graziano

David A. Schroeder is a Professor of Psychological Science and Director of Experimental Training at the University of Arkansas. He received his B.S. in psychology from Purdue University and his Ph.D. in social psychology from Arizona State University. He has authored numerous books and professional articles and delivered many conference presentations in the course of studying the motivation for helping behavior, social dilemmas, social-influence processes, and social justice.

William G. Graziano is a Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He received his B.A. in psychology from Franklin and Marshall College and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has authored professional articles and presentations on topics as diverse as personality and social/personality development, motivation, and interpersonal relations.

Contributors:

Christopher R. Agnew
Department of Psychology
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana

Terrance L. Albrecht
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Jillian C. Banfield
Department of Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Pat Barclay
Department of Psychology
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario

C. Daniel Batson
Department of Psychology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Erica Boothby
Department of Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Arjan E. R. Bos
School of Psychology
Open University
Heerlen, The Netherland
Stephanie L. Brown
Department of Psychiatry
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York

Daniel J. Christie
Department of Psychology
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Robert B. Cialdini
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

Emily K. Clark
Department of Psychology
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio

Margaret S. Clark
Department of Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Elizabeth Clark-Polner
Department of Psychology
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

E. Gil Clary
Kutztown University
Kutztown, Pennsylvania

Mark H. Davis
Department of Psychology
Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, Florida

Frans B. M. de Waal
Department of Psychology
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Amanda B. Diekman
Department of Psychology
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio

Anton J. M. Dijker
School for Public Health and Primary Care
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands

John F. Dovidio
Department of Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Susan Eggly
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Natalie D. Eggum
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

Nancy Eisenberg
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

Irina Feygina
Department of Psychology
New York University
New York, New York

William G. Graziano
Department of Psychology
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana

Meara M. Habashi
Department of Psychology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

P. J. Henry
Department of Psychology
New York University
New York, New York

Gilad Hirschberger
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Herzliya, Israel

J. Scott Jordan
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Eva Kahana
Department of Sociology
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Benjamin Le
Department of Psychology
Haverford College
Haverford, Pennsylvania

David A. Lishner
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Mark Manning
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Elizabeth Midlarsky
Teacher's College
Columbia University
New York, New York

Mario Mikulincer
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Herzliya, Israel

Cristina J. Montiel
School of Social Sciences
Ateneo de Manila University
Manila, Philippines

Arie Nadler
School of Psychological Sciences
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

Jessica M. Nolan
Department of Psychology
University of Scranton
Scranton, Pennsylvania

Craig D. Parks
Department of Psychology
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

Louis A. Penner
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Jane Allyn Piliavin
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

John B. Pryor
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Harry T. Reis
Department of Psychology
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

Wade C. Rowatt
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Baylor University
Waco, Texas

Donald A. Saucier
Department of Psychology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

David A. Schroeder
Department of Psychology
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

P. Wesley Schultz
Department of Psychology
California State University, San Marcos
San Marcos, California

Azim Shariff
Department of Psychology
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

Phil Shaver
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
Davis, California

Erica Siegl
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Mark Snyder
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Arthur A. Stukas
Department of Psychology
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia

Tracy L. Spinrad
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

Ervin Staub
Department of Psychology
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Eric L. Stocks
Department of Psychology and Counseling
University of Texas at Tyler
Tyler, Texas

Michael Tomasello
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute
Leipzig, Germany

Jo-Ann Tsang
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Baylor University
Waco, Texas

Eliot Turiel
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Tom Tyler
Yale Law School
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Erik van Dijk
Department of Psychology
Leiden University
Leiden, The Netherlands

Mark van Vugt
Department of Psychology
VU University Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Felix Warneken
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Eric D. Wesselmann
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior

Edited by David A. Schroeder and William G. Graziano

Oxford Library of Psychology

Reviews and Awards

"This is an excellent, comprehensive and detailed work on prosocial behavior, a topic in psychology that has not been looked into at depth before this book was published." - Sonu Chandiram, Biz India Online News