Presidential Address on Altruism and Sociology

The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement

1960 • 11,250 citations

The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism

1971 • 10,660 citations

Journal of Economic Literature

2019 • 5,347 citations

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

1986 • 5,237 citations

The Structure of Psychological Well-Being.

1970 • 4,990 citations

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies.

1956 • 4,023 citations

Review of personality and social psychology

1983 • 3,371 citations

Passions within reason: the strategic role of the emotions

1989 • 3,051 citations

Equity : theory and research

1978 • 2,473 citations

The relation of empathy to prosocial and related behaviors.

1987 • 2,252 citations

Structures and Processes of Social Support

1988 • 1,771 citations

Gender and aggressive behavior: A meta-analytic review of the social psychological literature.

1986 • 1,653 citations

The moral dimension: toward a new economics

1989 • 1,601 citations

Multiple Identities and Psychological Well-Being: A Reformulation and Test of the Social Isolation Hypothesis

1983 • 1,336 citations

The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy.

1971 • 1,322 citations

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

1985 • 1,278 citations

Prosocial Motivation: Is it ever Truly Altruistic?

1987 • 1,097 citations

Is empathic emotion a source of altruistic motivation?

1981 • 1,002 citations

The Structure of Sociological Theory

1979 • 984 citations

Sex Differences in Vulnerability to Undesirable Life Events

1984 • 953 citations

Gender and helping behavior: A meta-analytic review of the social psychological literature.

1986 • 939 citations

Altruism: A Review of Recent Theory and Research

1990 • 928 citations

The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics

1989 • 893 citations

The altruistic personality: rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe

1989 • 804 citations

The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

1983 • 750 citations

Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology

2016 • 714 citations

Is altruism part of human nature?

1981 • 692 citations

"Women in the Middle" and Family Help to Older People

1981 • 664 citations

Empathy-based helping: Is it selflessly or selfishly motivated?

1987 • 619 citations

Relation of sympathy and personal distress to prosocial behavior: A multimethod study.

1989 • 566 citations

Empathy-based helping: Is it selflessly or selfishly motivated?

1987 • 496 citations

Occupations and Values.

1958 • 462 citations

Altruism and aggression: The heritability of individual differences.

1986 • 430 citations

The Gift Relationship

2018 • 427 citations

Altruism and aggression: The heritability of individual differences.

1986 • 396 citations

Positive mood and helping behavior: A test of six hypotheses.

1988 • 382 citations

The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy

1971 • 381 citations

Positive mood and helping behavior: A test of six hypotheses.

1988 • 377 citations

Five studies testing two new egoistic alternatives to the empathy^altruism hypothesis.

1988 • 359 citations

The Gift Economy

1988 • 352 citations

Emergency Intervention

2013 • 349 citations

Five studies testing two new egoistic alternatives to the empathy-altruism hypothesis.

1988 • 337 citations

Whose Keeper?

1989 • 327 citations

Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation. By Alan Wolfe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 371p. $25.00.

1990 • 320 citations

Helping Behavior and Altruism: An Empirical and Conceptual Overview

1984 • 319 citations

The Structure of Sociological Theory

1975 • 317 citations

Elicitation of moral obligation and self-sacrificing behavior: An experimental study of volunteering to be a bone marrow donor.

1970 • 299 citations

The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy.

1973 • 291 citations

The Courage to Fail. A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis.

1979 • 288 citations

Social Organization of an Urban Grants Economy: A Study of Business Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations.

1988 • 277 citations

Mood influences on helping: Direct effects or side effects?

1984 • 258 citations

Altruism as hedonism: Helping and self-gratification as equivalent responses.

1981 • 255 citations

Wanting to and having to help: Separate motivations for positive mood and guilt-induced helping.

1980 • 253 citations

Negative-state relief and the empathy—altruism hypothesis.

1989 • 250 citations

The economics of empathic helping: Support for a mood management motive

1988 • 245 citations

Internalized Values as Motivators of Altruism

1984 • 235 citations

Explanation of the relation between negative mood and helping.

1987 • 231 citations

Sympathy Biography and Sympathy Margin

1987 • 226 citations

Empathy, communication, and prosocial behavior

1988 • 214 citations

Altruism reconsidered: The effect of denying feedback on a victim's status to empathic witnesses.

1989 • 201 citations

Gift of life : the effect of organ transplantation on individual, family, and societal dynamics

1987 • 194 citations

Providing help and desired relationship type as determinants of changes in moods and self-evaluations.

1989 • 183 citations

Responsibility, norms, and helping in an emergency.

1970 • 172 citations

Voluntary Action and Voluntary Groups

1975 • 168 citations

Providing help and desired relationship type as determinants of changes in moods and self-evaluations.

1989 • 164 citations

Social evaluation and the empathy-altruism hypothesis.

1986 • 163 citations

Effects of mood states, costs, and benefits on helping.

1978 • 155 citations

Invisible careers: women civic leaders from the volunteer world

1988 • 152 citations

Participation in Social and Political Activities

1980 • 145 citations

Occupations and Values

1958 • 145 citations

Three Sociological Traditions

1987 • 142 citations

Empathic concern and helping behavior: Egoism or altruism?

1988 • 139 citations

Social evaluation and the empathy–altruism hypothesis.

1986 • 132 citations

Altruism and helping behavior : social psychological studies of some antecedents and consequences

1970 • 128 citations

Is the repeated prisoner's dilemma a good model of reciprocal altruism?

1988 • 127 citations

Organ Transplantation and Replacement

1988 • 124 citations

Altruism, sympathy, and helping : psychological and sociological principles

1978 • 122 citations

Altruistic Love: A Study of American "Good Neighbors" and Christian Saints.

1951 • 116 citations

Focus of attention mediates the impact of negative affect on altruism.

1980 • 115 citations

Twelve kidney donors.

1968 • 110 citations

Altruism in Disrepute

1971 • 104 citations

Consistency-based compliance: When and why do children become vulnerable?

1987 • 96 citations

Gender Roles and Behavior in Social Dilemmas: Are There Sex Differences in Cooperation and in Its Justification?

1988 • 94 citations

Empathy, Sadness, and Distress

1988 • 93 citations

Twelve Kidney Donors

1968 • 92 citations

Cruelty and kindness : a new look at aggression and altruism

1976 • 91 citations

Cruelty and Kindness: A New Look at Aggression and Altruism

1977 • 84 citations

Death by Hand Grenade: Altruistic Suicide in Combat

1978 • 78 citations

Two Types of Altruistic Behavior: Doing Good to Feel Good or to Make the Other Feel Good

1982 • 76 citations

Intergroup contact with independent manipulations on in-group and out-group interaction.

1980 • 74 citations

Experiments with N-Person Social Traps I

1988 • 72 citations

A conception of the determinants and development of altruism and aggression: motives, the self, and the environment

1986 • 70 citations

Aggression and altruism: a personality perspective

1986 • 69 citations

ALTRUISTIC MOTIVATION TO HELP: DEFINITION, UTILITY AND OPERATION ALIZATION

1986 • 66 citations

Early organization of altruism and aggression: developmental patterns and individual differences

1986 • 62 citations

Sociology of Disasters: Contributions of Sociology to Disaster Research.

1988 • 56 citations

Dimensions of helping behaviour

1983 • 54 citations

Do good samaritans discourage helpfulness? Self-perceived altruism after exposure to highly helpful others.

1981 • 53 citations

On the reinforcing value of helping behavior in a positive mood

1987 • 53 citations

Human altruism and sociocultural fitness

1984 • 50 citations

Epigenetic rules in moral development: Distal-proximal approaches to altruism and aggression

1988 • 49 citations

The psychobiology of prosocial behaviors: separation distress, play, and altruism

1986 • 49 citations

Facts of Life

1977 • 43 citations

On willingness to be a bone marrow donor

1986 • 40 citations

Long-Term Reactions of Renal Recipients and Donors

1983 • 39 citations

Sex differences in bystander intervention in a theft.

1979 • 39 citations

Ageing and the relation of aggression, altruism and assertiveness scales to the Eysenck personality questionnaire

1989 • 39 citations

Spiral structure, dust clouds, and star formation.

1973 • 39 citations

Effects of Negative Personal Norms on Helping Behavior

1982 • 38 citations

Towards a New Theory of the Origin of the Family [and Comments and Reply]

1981 • 33 citations

Development in reciprocity through friendship

1986 • 33 citations

Explorations in Altruistic Love and Behavior

1951 • 32 citations

Sociology of Disasters: Contributions of Sociology to Disaster Research. Edited by R. R. Dynes, B. De Marchi, C. Pelanda. Franco Angeli Libri, Milan. 441 pp. $37.50. (Available from Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, at above listed price.)

1989 • 31 citations

Dimensions of helping behavior

1983 • 30 citations

Reciprocal altruism: 15 years later

1988 • 28 citations

Sex differences in reasoning and emotion about altruism

1989 • 26 citations

Sex differences in bystander intervention in a theft.

1979 • 24 citations

Learning to “Give to Unnamed Strangers”

1984 • 23 citations

Who signs an organ donor-card: Traditionalism versus transplantation

1974 • 18 citations

Altruistic Love: A Study of American "Good Neighbors" and Christian Saints.

1952 • 17 citations

Aggression and altruism : a psychological analysis

1970 • 16 citations

Self-interest, distributive justice, and the income distribution: A theoretical fragment based on St. Anselm's postulate

1989 • 15 citations

Naturalistic observation of cooperation, helping, and sharing and their associations with empathy and affect

1986 • 12 citations

Love, altruism, and world crisis: The challenge of Pitirim Sorokin

1974 • 10 citations

The socialization of prosocial behavior: theory and reality

1986 • 7 citations

On Meddling

1976 • 5 citations

Conclusions: lessons from the past and a look to the future

1986 • 5 citations

Negative Beneficence and Positive Beneficence: Being Parts V and Vi of the Principles of Ethics

2010 • 1 citations

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1955 • 0 citations