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Galen, Luke W. – Psychological Bulletin, 2012
Numerous authors have suggested that religious belief has a positive association, possibly causal, with prosocial behavior. This article critiques evidence regarding this "religious prosociality" hypothesis from several areas of the literature. The extant literature on religious prosociality is reviewed including domains of charity,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Prosocial Behavior, Academic Achievement, Beliefs
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Domjan, Michael; Purdy, Jesse E. – American Psychologist, 1995
Examines how the contributions of animal research are presented in eight of the most widely used introductory psychology textbooks. The authors show that, with the exception of principles of conditioning and learning, the contributions of animal research are often not explicitly acknowledged or are obscured to look like they had been obtained with…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology