How can social bonds in society be strengthened? How do we learn and develop prosocial behaviour? This comprehensive textbook provides coverage of the social phenomenon of prosocial behaviour, incorporating all the major developments in the field from developmental and social psychology. The first section identifies different forms of prosocial behaviour, including estimates of prevalence in everyday situations and the controversy between biological and cultural perspectives as explanatory models of prosocial behaviour. The second and third sections focus on learning and development, with...