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Need-based Helping

Need-Based Helping is a theoretical construct in the study of prosocial behavior that specifically refers to assistance provided to others in direct response to their demonstrated level of need, distinguished from other forms of helping by its dependency on the magnitude and urgency of the recipient's situation rather than the helper's strategic, reciprocal, or reputational motives.

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324

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165

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2017–2026

28

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128

Taking Advice: Accepting Help, Improving Judgment, and Sharing Responsibility

Nigel Harvey, Ilan Fischer · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 1997 · 594 citations

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Recruitment: Offers, Requests, and the Organization of Assistance in Interaction

Kobin H. Kendrick, Paul Drew · Research on Language and Social Interaction · 2016 · 410 citations · Full text

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Which Clients are Deserving of Help? A Theoretical Model and Experimental Test

Sebastian Jilke, Lars Tummers · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory · 2018 · 319 citations · Full text

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Classifying Prosocial Behavior: Children's Responses to Instrumental Need, Emotional Distress, and Material Desire

Kristen A. Dunfield, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier · Child Development · 2013 · 305 citations

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Chimpanzees’ flexible targeted helping based on an understanding of conspecifics’ goals

Shinya Yamamoto, Tatyana Humle, Masayuki Tanaka · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 277 citations · Full text

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Authors

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    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    4 publications · 178 citations

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  2. AN
    Arie Nadler

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    3 publications · 135 citations

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  3. BG
    Brendan Gaesser

    University at Albany, State University of New York, United States

    3 publications · 109 citations

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  4. JD
    Jeffrey D. Fisher

    University of Connecticut, United States

    2 publications · 93 citations

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  5. LO
    Luís Oceja

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

    2 publications · 38 citations

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Institutions

165

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    134 citations

  2. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    153 citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    4 h-index

    12 publications

    488 citations

  4. Leipzig University

    Leipzig, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    144 citations

  5. Albany State University

    Albany, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    183 citations

  6. University at Albany, State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    183 citations

  7. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    69 citations

  8. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    64 citations

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Venues

  1. Child Development

    8 publications · 732 citations

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  2. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

    PSPB · 5 publications · 349 citations

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  3. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    5 publications · 491 citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Social Psychology

    4 publications · 95 citations

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  5. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

    JECP · 3 publications · 70 citations

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