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Costly Helping

Costly Helping is a form of prosocial behavior in which an individual incurs a personal cost to assist another, distinguished from other helping behaviors by the significant sacrifice or risk borne by the helper.

194

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17.4K

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486

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268

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2017–2026

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Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior

Monica Y. Bartlett, David DeSteno · Psychological Science · 2006 · 1.1K citations

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Neural Responses to Ingroup and Outgroup Members' Suffering Predict Individual Differences in Costly Helping

Grit Hein, Giorgia Silani, Kerstin Preuschoff et al. · Neuron · 2010 · 834 citations · Full text

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Agreeableness, empathy, and helping: A person × situation perspective.

William G. Graziano, Meara M. Habashi, Brad E. Sheese et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2007 · 685 citations

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The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion

Joseph Henrich · Evolution and Human Behavior · 2009 · 676 citations

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Spontaneous Altruism by Chimpanzees and Young Children

Felix Warneken, Brian Hare, Alicia P. Melis et al. · PLoS Biology · 2007 · 552 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MT
    Michael Taborsky

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    5 publications · 571 citations

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  2. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    4 publications · 849 citations

    4

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  3. DS
    Daniel Sznycer

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    3 publications · 303 citations

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  4. LC
    Leda Cosmides

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    3 publications · 303 citations

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  5. EA
    Emrah Arbak

    Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St Etienne, France

    3 publications · 159 citations

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Institutions

268

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    19 publications

    2.5K citations

  3. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    975 citations

  4. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    878 citations

  5. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    4.7K citations

  6. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    4 h-index

    16 publications

    4.2K citations

  7. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    94 citations

  8. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    291 citations

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Venues

  1. Evolution and Human Behavior

    8 publications · 1.4K citations

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 7 publications · 134 citations

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  3. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    6 publications · 937 citations

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  4. Journal of Theoretical Biology

    6 publications · 288 citations

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  5. Journal of Economic Psychology

    4 publications · 250 citations

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