Helping "Us" versus "Them": Towards a Group-Level Theory of Helping and Altruism Within and Across Group Boundaries

The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior: Group Processes, Intergroup Relations, and Helping

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 33-58

  Stürmer, Stefan ^a   Snyder, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emphasizing commonalities among groups promoting empathy and altruism across group lines; Group level theory of helping and altruism within and across group boundaries; Helping "Us" versus "Them"; In group out group distinction impact on empathy helping relationship; Motives for helping in interpersonal contexts; Perception of similarities between helper and target; Psychological understanding of altruistic motivation and empathy in helping; Role of perceived self other (dis)similarities in empathy relationship and evolutionary roots; Salient in group out group distinctions; Social psychological theory of helping and altruism and social groups

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EID: 84890724168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307948.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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