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Big‐Picture Issues: Research on Helping Behavior and Victims of Natural Disasters
Author(s) -
Marjanovic Zdravko,
Struthers C. Ward,
Greenglass Esther R.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
analyses of social issues and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1530-2415
pISSN - 1529-7489
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2012.01302.x
Subject(s) - culpability , perspective (graphical) , scope (computer science) , empathy , psychology , natural disaster , relation (database) , natural (archaeology) , social psychology , sociology , criminology , history , computer science , geography , archaeology , database , artificial intelligence , meteorology , programming language
In this article we address the three general themes that emerged from the commentary articles regarding our target article. These were: (1) victim culpability; (2) the nature of the empathy‐helping relation, and; (3) victim characteristics that influence helping rates. For each topic, we review overarching concerns made in the commentaries, any ideas that these authors proposed, and our response or perspective on each topic. As the commentaries were rich in content and broad in scope, we could not address each and every concern individually. This article addresses only what we considered to be the big‐picture issues.