Helping and Hurting

Voluntary behavior with the intent to help other people is called prosocial behavior. Why do people help other people? Is personal benefit such as feeling …

Some researchers suggest that altruism operates on empathy. Empathy is the capacity to understand another person’s perspective, to feel what he or …

Social traps are negative situations where people get caught in a direction or relationship that later proves to be unpleasant, with no easy way to back …

Humans engage in aggression when they seek to cause harm or pain to another person. Aggression takes two forms depending on one’s motives: hostile …

A modern form of aggression is bullying. As you learn in your study of child development, socializing and playing with other children is beneficial for …

The discussion of bullying highlights the problem of witnesses not intervening to help a victim. This is a common occurrence, as the following …