The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior: Group Processes, Intergroup Relations, and Helping

"At a time when crises are springing up everywhere at home and abroad, and evil appears to be marshaling mighty forces, nothing could be more timely and needed than this brilliant collection of insightful contributions about how to elicit the best in human nature. The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior is must reading for understanding how to elicit helping, volunteering, altruism, and yes even heroism from ordinary people—our neighbors and us all."
–Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D., Author of The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox

"This volume makes a unique and significant contribution to the social science literature by bringing together research and theory on social identity, groups, and intergroup relations with traditional topics in the study of prosocial behavior.  The contributors are major figures from both of these fields of research and their combined efforts bring a new level of understanding of how human propensities toward helping and altruism are influenced by group memberships and intra- and inter-group processes.  A major step forward in the social psychology of sociality."
–Marilynn Brewer, University of New South Wales