Stigmas and Prosocial Behavior: Are People Reluctant to Help Stigmatized Persons?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 59-80

  Pryor, John B ^a   Reeder, Glenn D ^a   Monroe, Andrew E ^b   Patel, Arati ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Abominations of body, moral character stigmas and tribal stigmas; Attribution and stigma and stigma on prosocial behavior; Aversion to stigmatized persons; Dual processes in ongoing interaction; Dual process model affective reactions to stigmatized persons and ambivalence; Evolutionary account of stigma aversion as instinctual reaction; Relationship between stigma and prosocial behavior; Specific behavioral information and stigma role and perceiving strangers; Stereotypes of people about illness related stigmas; Stigmas and prosocial behavior reluctantance in helping stigmatized persons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890773325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307948.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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