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**Definition:** Behavior that benefits others, such as helping, cooperation, and sympathy. Gen Psych, Chapter 14, p. 456

= Examples: = People during World War II helping jews, families helping needy children or orphans. The family helped the homeless man by taking him to a shelter. The family adopted an animal who was going to be put down soon. Every weekend a girl feeds homeless people on the streets. The football players visit the children's hospital on Wednesdays and read to the kids.

= Analogies: = Kindness, generosity.

= Mnemonics: = Pro at being social. Professional socialist,

=In the News:= [|Generous donors come to rescue of puppy Roscoe] Thanks to the generosity of Canadians, Roscoe the injured six-month-old puppy is recuperating from his operation in a Vancouver veterinary clinic. Roscoe was found wandering in Smithers with what appeared to be a badly broken right leg. Neither his owners nor the volunteers at the Northwest Animal Shelter had the resources for an operation, so the volunteers fundraised to send Roscoe to the Vancouver Animal Control Shelter for medical care and adoption.

[|Study rates Latter-day Saints high for 'prosocial behavior'] According to a recent academic study, active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “are the most prosocial members of American society."

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