Learning Objectives

Back to: Psychological Implications of Helping

In this course section you will become acquainted with

• motives and motivations for helping behaviour;
• typical expectations that helpers have;
• the importance of empathy and self-efficacy in prosocial thinking and acting;
• the experience of meaningfulness and stress reduction through prosocial behaviour;
• the psychological concepts of altruism and egoism and their interaction;
• limits, risks and pitfalls of helping;
• the Helper Syndrome as an inappropriate approach to altruistic acting.