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Altruism and helping behavior : social, personality, and developmental perspectives

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The article was published on 1981-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 220 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Helping behavior & Prosocial behavior.

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The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review.

TL;DR: The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them as mentioned in this paper, and characterizes emotion in terms of response tendencies.
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Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion

TL;DR: The authors hypothesize that there is a general bias, based on both innate predispositions and experience, in animals and humans to give greater weight to negative entities (e.g., events, objects, personal traits).
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The Relation of Empathy to Prosocial and Related Behaviors

TL;DR: Low to moderate positive relations generally were found between empathy and both prosocial behavior and cooperative/socially competent behavior and the method of assessing empathy did influence the strength of the relations.
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Prosocial Organizational Behaviors

TL;DR: The construct of prosocial organizational behavior is defined and 13 specific forms are described in this article, which vary according to whether they are functional or dysfunctional for organizational effectiveness, prescribed or not prescribed as part of one's organizational role, and directed toward an individual or organizational target.
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Feeling good-doing good: a conceptual analysis of the mood at work-organizational spontaneity relationship.

TL;DR: Five forms of organizational spontaneity are described (helping co-workers, protecting the organization, making constructive suggestions, developing oneself, and spreading goodwill) and a multilevel model of spontaneous behavior is presented.