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Video: Helping

David Schroeder briefly introduces the social psychology of helping, looking at the conditions that facilitate helping, the types of people most likely to help others and their motivations for helping.

Script: David Schroeder
Video: Diana Onu
Narration: Dan Marshall

For some further reading:

  • Batson, C. D., (2011).  Altruism in humans.  New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Bloom, P. (2013).  Just babies: The origins of good and evil.  New York: Crown.
  • De Waal, F. B. M. (1996).  Good natured: The origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University press.
  • De Waal, F. B. M. (2009).  The age of empathy: Nature’s lessons for a kinder society.  New York: Crown.
  • Dovidio, J.F., Piliavin, J. A., Schroeder, D. A., & Penner, L. A. (2006).  The social psychology of prosocial behavior.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Keltner, D. (2009).  Born to be good: The science of a meaningful life.  New York: Norton.
  • Pfaff, D. W.  (2015).  The altruistic brain: How we are naturally good.  New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Schroeder, D. A., & Graziano, W. G. (2015).  The Oxford handbook of prosocial behavior.  New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Sober, E., & Wilson, D. S. (1998).  Unto others: The evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Sober, D. S. (2015).  Does altruism exist?  Culture, genes, and welfare of others.  New Haven, NJ: Tale University Press.
  • Staub, E. (2015).  The roots of goodness and resistance to evil: Inclusive caring, moral courage, altruism born of suffering, active bystandership, and heroism.  New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Sturmer, S., & Snyder, M. (2010).  The psychology of prosocial behavior: Group processes, intergroup relations, and helping.  New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Van Lange, P. A. M., Balliet, D. P., Parks, C. D., & van Vugt, M. (2014).  Social dilemmas: The psychology of human cooperation.  New York: Oxford University Press.

The production of this video was supported by a Grass Roots Grant from Tilburg University.