Definitions
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- adjective Beneficial to all parties and consistent with community laws and mores
- adjective Contributing to a beneficial outcome by negotiation, problem solving, problem analysis, clarification, or respectful behaviors
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most behaviors that we call prosocial require time, energy, and risk on the part of the prosocial individual.
David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection II: The Original Problem 2009
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Most behaviors that we call prosocial require time, energy, and risk on the part of the prosocial individual.
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Most behaviors that we call prosocial require time, energy, and risk on the part of the prosocial individual.
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Thankfully, there is a movement afoot in the advertising community to change how it enters, and so defines, your R.A.S. It's called prosocial advertising.
Auren Kaplan: An Evolved Take on Psychology, Brands and Poverty Auren Kaplan 2012
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Thankfully, there is a movement afoot in the advertising community to change how it enters, and so defines, your R.A.S. It's called prosocial advertising.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Auren Kaplan 2012
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In the language of behavioral science, we are "prosocial" beings who are often willing to make individual sacrifices to promote group goals.
Lynn Stout: The Problem With "Me First" Politics Lynn Stout 2010
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In the language of behavioral science, we are "prosocial" beings who are often willing to make individual sacrifices to promote group goals.
Lynn Stout: The Problem With "Me First" Politics Lynn Stout 2010
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Where once such tactics were used to enforce a traditional moral code, today they have found new life in nudging us to conform to "prosocial" behavior, be it philanthropy or strict adherence to the expansive pieties of our reigning civic religion, environmentalism.
Ain Eric Felten 2010
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In the language of behavioral science, we are "prosocial" beings who are often willing to make individual sacrifices to promote group goals.
Lynn Stout: The Problem With "Me First" Politics Lynn Stout 2010
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The research, based on an analysis of nearly 1,000 pairs of identical and non-identical twins, found that about half of "prosocial" traits - the willingness to help others - identified in women could be linked with genes rather than environmental upbringing, whereas the figure was just 20 per cent in men.
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