I General Theoretical Approaches. - 1 American Study of Helping Behavior: What? Why? And Where?. - 2 Notes Toward an Interactionist-Motivational Theory of the Determinants and Development of (Pro)Social Behavior. - 3 Spatial Organization of a Cognitive System and Intrinsic Prosocial Motivation. - II Developmental Aspects. - 4 Roots Motives And Patterns In Children's Prosocial Behavior. - 5 Prosocial Behavior in the Preschool Years: Methodological and Conceptual Issues. - 6 Parent Discipline Moral Internalization and Development of Prosocial Motivation. - 7 Focus of Attention and Altruism: Endocentric and Exocentric Sources of Altruistic Behavior. - 8 Regulatory Theory of Personality and the Development of Prosocial Behaviors. - 9 Development of Cooperation and Help-Seeking Activities: An Action Theoretical Approach. - 10 The Development of Capacity for Altruism as a Function of Object Relations Development and Vicissitudes. - III Determinants of Prosocial Behavior. - 11 Internalized Values as Motivators of Altruism. - 12 Freedom of Choice and Moral Behavior. - 13 The Altruistic Personality: Evidence from Laboratory Naturalistic and Self-Report Perspectives. - 14 Competence and Helping: Notes Toward a Model. - 15 Altruism and Patterns of Social Interaction. - 16 The Helpfulness of Urban Villagers. - IV Help Seeking and Help Receiving. - 17 Help Seeking and Social Interaction: Person Situation and Process Considerations. - 18 Some Paradoxical Status Implications of Helping And Being Helped. - 19 The Darker Side of Helping: The Social Dynamics of Helping and Cooperation. - 20 Effects Of Donor-Recipient Relationships On Recipients' Reactions To Aid. - V Applications Of Knowledge About Prosocial Behavior. - 21 Enhancing Prosocial Behavior Through Cooperative Learning in the Classroom. -22 Community as Target: A New Perspective to Research on Prosocial Behavior. - 23 Bystander Intervention in Crimes: Research and Application. - 24 Learning to Give To Unnamed Strangers: The Process of Commitment to Regulär Blood Donation. - Author Index. Language: English