Helping behavior. Turning away from aggression, we move now to the opposite – and brighter – side of human nature: helping behavior. Helping behavior, or prosocial behavior as it is more formally known, has been considered under many different conditions.
However, the question that psychologists have looked at most closely relates to bystander intervention in emergency situations. What are the factors that lead someone to help a person in need?
Prosocial Behavior is an action that benefit others but have no obvious benefits for the person carrying them out, and which sometimes involve risk for the prosocial person.