Overview:

This short paper provides you an opportunity to use psychological research to explore what factors contribute to helping behavior.

 

Prompt:

Write a short paper on predictors of helping behaviors that engages the following:

 

What makes us help other people? Are the variables that make us more likely to help others genetic or environmental? Using research from the Shapiro Library, explain which factor—genetics or the environment—is more powerful in regards to helping behavior. Support your perspective using research and examples. Also, consider the strongest or most valid points that may be raised against your argument and counter them.

 

Guidelines for Submission:

Submit a paper of two to three double-spaced pages, submitted in Microsoft Word, with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, title page, subject headers and all sources cited in APA style within the text and in the reference section.