High cost helping scenario: The role of empathy, prosocial reasoning and moral disengagement on helping behavior

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-7

  Paciello, Marinella ^a   Fida, Roberta ^b   Cerniglia, Luca ^a   Tramontano, Carlo ^c   Cole, Ellie ^c  

^a SECTION OF MATHEMATICS   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empathy; Helping behavior; Moral disengagement; Omission; Personal distress; Prosocial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875616989     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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