Provides up-to-date coverage of the social phenomenon of prosocial behaviour, incorporating all the major developments in the field from developmental and social psychology.

Introduction
Prosocial Behaviour and Social Life
Issues of Definition
Forms of Prosocial Behaviour
The Special Case of Planned Helping
How Helpful Are Human Beings? Helpfulness in Nonserious Situations
Intervention in Emergency Situations
Culture, the Individual, and Level of Helpfulness
Gender Differences
Urban-rural Comparisons
Time Effects
Social Status
Human Nature vs
Cultural Context
The Biological Perspective
The Cultural Context
Measurement and Generality of Prosocial Behaviour in Children
How is Prosocial Behaviour Measured in Children? Generality of Prosocial Behaviour
Learning and Development
How does Prosocial Behaviour Develop? Prosocial Behaviour in the Second Year of Life
Age Trends in Prosocial Orientation: 4-20 years
Beyond Adolescence
Learning of Prosocial Behaviour
Prosocial Modelling
Social Reinforcement
The Role of Reasoning in Moral Internalisation
Altruistic Self-scheme
Processes of Prosocial Behaviour
Empathy
Modes of Empathy Arousal
Self-other Differentiation and the Development of Empathy
Measurement of Empathy
Empathic Accuracy
Guilt
Empathy-based Guilt
Guilt in Social Life
Shame vs
Guilt
Measures of Guilt
Guilt and Mental Health
Transgression, Guilt, and Reparation
Survivor Guilt
Guilt over Affluence
Responsibility
The Meaning of Responsibility: Voluntariness and Controllability
The Origin of Social Responsibility
Responsibility and Social Conduct
Definitions and Research Traditions
Environmental Responsibility
Responsibility as a Predictor of Prosocial Behaviour
Two Dimensions of Social Responsibility
Denial of Responsibility
Theories of Prosocial Behaviour
Arousal: Cost-reward Model of Intervention
Costs of Helping and Costs of not Helping
Prediction of Intervention
Impulsive Helping
The Revised Theory
Altruistic Motive System
Perspective Taking, Empathic Concern, and Prosocial Behaviour
Basic Research on the Empathy-altruism Hypothesis
Further Tests of the Empathy-altruism Hypothesis
Empathy-related Responding and Emotional Regulation
Multimethod Approach
Theoretical Advancement
Social Inhibition of Bystander Intervention
The Decision-making Process: From Bystander to Actor
Social Inhibition: When the Situation is Difficult to Handle
Calculation of Corrected Probabilities of Intervention of Groups and Individuals
Altruistic Personality
Rescuers of Jews
Further Results on the Altruistic Personality
Psychology of Seeking and Receiving Help
Receiving Help: A Benefit not Without Risks
Seeking Help: Successful Coping may have a Price
Which Factors Influence the Reactions of Help-recipients?
Applications
Raising the Level of First-aid in Real Life
The Key Roles of Responsibility and Competence
Determinants of Subjective Competence
Solidarity
Theory of Solidarity
What is Solidarity? Different Uses of the Term Solidarity
Common Interests
Solidarity on the Basis of Interests of Others
Conclusions
Voluntary Work Engagement in Organisations
Self-responsible Organisational Behaviour
Organisational Citizenship Behaviour
Prosocial Organisational Behaviour
Organisational Spontaneity: Mood and Group Atmosphere as Predictors of Prosocial Behaviour
Comparison between OCB, POB, and OS
Volunteerism
Functional Approach to Volunteerism
Motives of Volunteers
Role-identity Model
Altruistic Personality, Motives of Volunteers, and Religious Orientation
Conclusions
Postscript
The Community as the Unit of Analysis
Sociobiological Perspective and Socialisation Processes
Situational vs Dispositional Explanations
Altruism vs Egoism
What Comes Next?
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