Pro-social behaviour
What Pro-social behaviour means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Pro-social behaviour
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Actions that benefit others and society, such as peaceful demonstrations or bystanders collectively lifting a vehicle to save a trapped person.
Actions that benefit others, which rehabilitation aims to increase.
Topics that use Pro-social behaviour
- Criminal psychology (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Social influence (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Anger-management programmes
- Authoritarian personality
- Bystander effect
- Collective behaviour
- Conformity
- Deindividuation
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Obedience
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