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Altruism and Prosocial Behavior

  • Lay J
  • Hoppmann C
Springer Singapore, (2017), 249-256
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-082-7_69
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Abstract

There is strong evidence for systematic changes in prosocial behaviour across the adult lifespan, suggesting that older adults behave more prosocially than young adults2,3. The next section reviews a spectrum of possible motivations for engaging in prosocial behaviour, from genuinely psychological mechanisms to evolutionary accounts, examines potential age-related differences in these mechanisms, and reviews frequently chosen methodological approaches for studying them. Altruism

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Lay, J. C., & Hoppmann, C. A. (2017). Altruism and Prosocial Behavior. In Encyclopedia of Geropsychology (pp. 249–256). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-082-7_69

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