Altruism
A Review of Recent Theory and Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14714151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Allyn Piliavin (Department of Sociology, 8128 Social Science Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706), Hong-Wen Charng (Department of Sociology, 8128 Social Science Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-65 |
| Publication date | 1990-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.so.16.080190.000331 |
| OpenAlex | W2101441610 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 244 |
| References cited | 51 |
The literature on altruism in social psychology, and to a lesser degree in sociology, economics, political behavior and sociobiology since the early 1980’s is reviewed. The authors take the position that in all of these areas, there appears to be a “paradigm shift” away from the earlier position that behavior that appears to be altruistic must, under closer scrutiny, be revealed as reflecting egoistic motives. Rather, theory and data now being advanced are more compatible with the view that true altruism—acting with the goal of benefitting another—does exist and is a part of human nature. Research in social psychology during the 80’s had a decreased emphasis on situational determinants of helping. Rather, it has focussed mainly on the following topics: the existence and nature of the altruistic personality, the debate concerning the nature of the motivation underlying helping behavior, and the nature of the process of the development of altruism in children and adults. During this time there has also been considerable theoretical and empirical work on possible biological bases for altruism, and on the evolutionary processes by which these might have developed. Within economics, politics, and sociology, the issues of behavior in social dilemmas, the provision of public goods, private and corporate philanthropy, and voluntarism (including donation of time, money, and physical parts of the self) are discussed
Economics · Homo economicus · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public good · Scrutiny · Situational ethics · Sociobiology · Sociology · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
Employee Care and the Role of Nonprofit Organizations
Earth altruism
Joy Of Giving Week Providing Stimulus to Customers and Triggering Response in Terms of Willingness To Pay Under Cause Related Marketing
The Art of philanthropy? The formation and development of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
Private transfers to parents from their genetically related and nongenetically related children
The Motivations to Volunteer
Intergenerational and community responsibility
Robot life
The Effects of Support Exchanges on the Psychological Well-Being of Volunteers
The Automaticity of Affect for Political Leaders, Groups, and Issues
Practicing What We Preach? The Influence of a Societal Interest Value on Civic Engagement
Why Do People Sacrifice for Their Nations
Altruismens kollektiva former
Determinants and Consequences of Social Trust
Social Civility in the United States
From Paid Worker to Volunteer
Resources That Make You Generous
The Collective Dimensions of Political Morality
Altruism and Turnout
Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers
Generosity pays
Reinterpreting the empathy–altruism relationship
Compassion, pride, and social intuitions of self-other similarity
Applying Organizational Ecology to the Family
Prosocial Behavior on the Net
The Emergence of Generalized Exchange
Empati̇ Ve Di̇ğerkâmliğa Mevlânâca Bakiş
Volunteerism in Adolescence
Local Charitable Giving and Civil Society Organizations in Japan
Quality of Life of Community-Dwelling Retirement-Aged New Zealanders
The moral psychology handbook
Volunteerism, Psychology of
Back to the Future
Beyond the Altruism-Egoism Dichotomy
The Trouble with Invisible Men
Prosocial Motivation
Altruism and Prosocial Behavior, Sociology of
Social Psychological Ingredients for a Sociology of Morality
Empathy-induced altruistic motivation.
Congruence Effects in Sponsorship
Internal and external influences on pro-environmental behavior
Employees without a Cause
Research in social entrepreneurship
Altruism and Prosocial Behavior
Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference
Building Theory and Empirical Evidence about Public Service Motivation
Formal and Informal Volunteer Activity and Spousal Caregiving Among Older Adults
Research on Corporate Philanthropy
A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy
Feeling Love and Doing More for Distant Others
Toward a Unifying Model of Identification With Groups
Toddlers’ Prosocial Behavior
The New Environmental Paradigm and Personal Norms
Agency Relationships in Family Firms
Why We Boycott
Prosociality
Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory
Defusing the Demandingness Objection
Are religious people more caring? Exploring the impact of religiosity on charitable organizations in a developing country
Motivation, agency, and public policy
Volunteering and Charitable Giving
Inequality, Decisions, and Altruism
The Link Between Religion and Helping Others
Giving and Getting
Volunteering Among Older People in Korea
Is Self-Centered a Refutation of the Ego-Quieting Hypothesis in Contemplative Practices
How Mothers Allocate Support Among Adult Children
Economic and Sociological Theories of Individual Charitable Giving
Altruism, ideological entrepreneurs and the non-profit firm
The Relationship Between Personality and Discretionary Helping Behaviors
The dependent variable of the independent sector
Another in need enhances prosociality and modulates frontal theta oscillations in young adults
Social participation and charitable giving
Satisfaction and Commitment in Voluntary Organizations
Prosocial Behavior
Is There a Place for Altruism in Sociological Thought
The Relationship between Personality and Discretionary Helping Behaviors
The moderating effect of altruism on the relationship between occupational stress and turnover intentions
Attribution and Helping Behavior
Beyond Pro-Social Behaviour
Attribution and Helping Behavior- Testing the Attribution-Affect-Help Judgment Model in a Saudi Sample
The Global Spirit of Philanthropy and Altruism
Giving Altruism Its Due
Severity of Adversity Predicts Lower Costly Helping
Cognition, Culture, and Charity
Comparing the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Intention-Based Theories of Personal Monetary Donation to Charitable Organizations
Altruism, kibbutz and sacrificing
“Can You Take the Heat?” Heat-Induced Health Symptoms Are Associated with Protective Behaviors
How help-seeking information spreads on social media during disasters
Pledge Now (To Benefit Yourself)! An Analysis of Public Radio Fundraising
The Processual Nature of Volunteer Engagement
Why they do it and why they don’t
Community participation towards conservation of Touran National Park (TNP)
A view into managers’ subjective experiences of public service motivation and work engagement
How and when perceived CSR enhances employees’ helping behaviour and creativity
Movement allies
Based on the perception of ethics in social commerce platforms
Greener, more wasteful? Examining the rebound effect of green product offerings in tourism
Spiritual Jewish Criminology
Metachangemaking
Public goods provision in an experimental environment
Economists free ride, does anyone else?
Social learning theory
Altruism and the Problem of Collective Action
Prosocial Motivation
Personality in the Social Process
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior
Insights from sadness
Social values and cooperative response to a simulated resource conservation crisis
The perception of nonemergency helping situations
The commons problem
The shortage of cadaver donor organs for transplantation
Gender and aggressive behavior
Sensation Seeking and Intention to Donate Blood
Effects of Moods on Thoughts About Helping, Attraction and Information Acquisition
Role Identity and Reasoned Action in the Prediction of Repeated Behavior
Emergency and Cost as Determinants of Helping Behavior and the Slow Accumulation of Social Psychological Knowledge
Role-Identity Salience
Effect of Helping Under Normative Pressure on Self-Perceived Altruism
Why Charity? The Case for a Third Sector
The free rider problem
Reciprocity Behavior in the Relationship Between Donor and Recipient and Between Harm-Doer and Victim
Critical self-reflection and self-perceived altruism
Gender-related traits and helping behaviors
Relation of sympathy and personal distress to prosocial behavior
Is empathic emotion a source of altruistic motivation
Five studies testing two new egoistic alternatives to the empathy^altruism hypothesis
Androgyny and helping behavior
Do good samaritans discourage helpfulness? Self-perceived altruism after exposure to highly helpful others
The attribution of arousal and emergency helping
Might over morality
The economics of empathic helping
How social an animal? The human capacity for caring
Effects of greed and fear of being gypped in a social dilemma situation with changing pool size
Choices in Social Dilemmas
Provision of step-level public goods
Individual adaptations and structural change as solutions to social dilemmas
Focus of attention mediates the impact of negative affect on altruism
Sex differences in bystander intervention in a theft
The influence of outcomes and procedures on satisfaction with formal leaders
From attribution to helping
Elicitation of moral obligation and self-sacrificing behavior
Mood influences on helping
Reactions of would-be helpers whose offer of help is spurned
Individual and structural solutions to resource dilemmas in two cultures
A cognitive (attribution)-emotion-action model of motivated behavior
Sociobiology and social psychology-Rivalry or symbiosis? The explanation of altruism
Explanation of the relation between negative mood and helping
Sex differences in empathy and related capacities
Sociobiology
The Role and the Person
| Unique citing works | 244 |
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| Citations per year | 6,97 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 218 |