 Helping Behavior
"Helping Behavior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Behaviors associated with the giving of assistance or aid to individuals.
| Descriptor ID |
D006379
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.813.225
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| Concept/Terms |
Helping Behavior- Helping Behavior
- Behavior, Helping
- Behaviors, Helping
- Helping Behaviors
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Helping Behavior" by people in Profiles.
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Sheeran WM, Donaldson ZR. An innate drive to save a life. Science. 2025 Feb 21; 387(6736):827-828.
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Balderas J, Bistricky SL, Gimenez-Zapiola M, Pascuzzi B, Millmann M, Short MB. Brief Online Intervention Model Promotes Sustained Helping Behavior Across 6 Months Following a Population-Wide Traumatic Event. Psychol Rep. 2025 Apr; 128(2):1248-1268.
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Bistricky SL, Long LJ, Lai BS, Gallagher MW, Kanenberg H, Elkins SR, Harper KL, Short MB. Surviving the storm: Avoidant coping, helping behavior, resilience and affective symptoms around a major hurricane-flood. J Affect Disord. 2019 10 01; 257:297-306.
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Sakai JT, Raymond KM, McWilliams SK, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK. Testing helping behavior and its relationship to antisocial personality and psychopathic traits. Psychiatry Res. 2019 04; 274:98-104.
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Leone RM, Parrott DJ. Acute Alcohol Intoxication Inhibits Bystander Intervention Behavior for Sexual Aggression Among Men with High Intent to Help. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2019 01; 43(1):170-179.
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Vitikainen EIK, Marshall HH, Thompson FJ, Sanderson JL, Bell MBV, Gilchrist JS, Hodge SJ, Nichols HJ, Cant MA. Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder. Proc Biol Sci. 2017 May 17; 284(1854).
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Albert AB, Jacobs HE, Siperstein GN. Sticks, Stones, and Stigma: Student Bystander Behavior in Response to Hearing the Word "Retard". Intellect Dev Disabil. 2016 Dec; 54(6):391-401.
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Ashar YK, Andrews-Hanna JR, Yarkoni T, Sills J, Halifax J, Dimidjian S, Wager TD. Effects of compassion meditation on a psychological model of charitable donation. Emotion. 2016 08; 16(5):691-705.
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Sakai JT, Dalwani MS, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, McWilliams SK, Raymond KM, Crowley TJ. A Behavioral Measure of Costly Helping: Replicating and Extending the Association with Callous Unemotional Traits in Male Adolescents. PLoS One. 2016; 11(3):e0151678.
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McLeigh JD, McDonell JR, Melton GB. Community differences in the implementation of Strong Communities for Children. Child Abuse Negl. 2015 Mar; 41:97-112.
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