Religiosity predicts prosociality, especially when measured by self-report: A meta-analysis of almost 60 years of research.

JM Kelly, SR Kramer, AF Shariff - Psychological Bulletin, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
This meta-analysis explores the long-standing and heavily debated question of whether
religiosity is associated with prosocial and antisocial behavior at the individual level. In an …

[HTML][HTML] Moving the self and others to do good: The emotional underpinnings of prosocial behavior

GA Van Kleef, GJ Lelieveld - Current opinion in psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
The functioning of social collectives hinges on the willingness of their members to cooperate
with one another and to help those who are in need. Here, we consider how such prosocial …

Self-transcendent emotions and their social functions: Compassion, gratitude, and awe bind us to others through prosociality

JE Stellar, AM Gordon, PK Piff, D Cordaro… - Emotion …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article we review the emerging literature on the self-transcendent emotions. We
discuss how the self-transcendent emotions differ from other positive emotions and outline …

Action, outcome, and value: A dual-system framework for morality

F Cushman - Personality and social psychology review, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Dual-system approaches to psychology explain the fundamental properties of human
judgment, decision making, and behavior across diverse domains. Yet, the appropriate …

An occasion for unselfing: Beautiful nature leads to prosociality

JW Zhang, PK Piff, R Iyer, S Koleva, D Keltner - Journal of environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Past studies have documented interpersonal benefits of natural environments. Across four
studies, we tested the hypothesis that exposure to more beautiful nature, relative to less …

[图书][B] The nonreligious: Understanding secular people and societies

P Zuckerman, LW Galen, FL Pasquale - 2016 - books.google.com
The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several
decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical …

[图书][B] The bonobo and the atheist: In search of humanism among the primates

HC Lodge, FBM Waal - 2013 - books.google.com
In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist
Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes …

[图书][B] American secularism: Cultural contours of nonreligious belief systems

JO Baker, BG Smith - 2015 - books.google.com
Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section on Religion Distinguished
Book Award A rapidly growing number of Americans are embracing life outside the bounds …

Feelings for the suffering of others and the environment: Compassion fosters proenvironmental tendencies

S Pfattheicher, C Sassenrath… - Environment and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research has shown that compassionate feelings for the suffering environment
promote conservation of nature. We extend this notion and relate compassion for suffering …

Religion, spirituality, and altruism.

V Saroglou - 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
The world religions proclaim prosocial values (Habito & Inaba, 2006), but it is still unclear
whether these values translate into behaviors (Ellens, 2007) and whether they are really …