Why do we help? World change orientation as an antecedent of prosocial action

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Oceja ◽  
Sergio Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Change Orientation ◽  
Prosocial Action

Orientation of actin filaments during motion in motility assay

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 52-53
Author(s):  
J. Borejdo ◽  
S. Burlacu
Keyword(s):  
Actin Filaments ◽  
Thin Filament ◽  
Striated Muscle ◽  
Myosin Head ◽  
Classical Method ◽  
Polarization Of Fluorescence ◽  
Single Protein ◽  
Intracellular Organelles ◽  
Change Orientation ◽  
Active Entity

Polarization of fluorescence is a classical method to assess orientation or mobility of macromolecules. It has been a common practice to measure polarization of fluorescence through a microscope to characterize orientation or mobility of intracellular organelles, for example anisotropic bands in striated muscle. Recently, we have extended this technique to characterize single protein molecules. The scientific question concerned the current problem in muscle motility: whether myosin heads or actin filaments change orientation during contraction. The classical view is that the force-generating step in muscle is caused by change in orientation of myosin head (subfragment-1 or SI) relative to the axis of thin filament. The molecular impeller which causes this change resides at the interface between actin and SI, but it is not clear whether only the myosin head or both SI and actin change orientation during contraction. Most studies assume that observed orientational change in myosin head is a reflection of the fact that myosin is an active entity and actin serves merely as a passive "rail" on which myosin moves.

Activating the motive of Quixoteism: The transcendent-change orientation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Oceja ◽  
Sergio Salgado ◽  
Pilar Carrera
Keyword(s):  
Change Orientation

Effect of artificial wind on sheep movement along indoor races

1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (116) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
GD Hutson ◽  
Mourik SC van
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Change Orientation ◽  
Large Wind ◽  
Rate Of Movement

The effect of artificial wind on sheep movement along indoor races was tested in two experiments. In experiment 1 a large wind machine was used to produce wind speeds of 0, 5, 10, 15, 21, 23 and 25 km/h. The test sheep were aligned in a starting pen to face the wind. Sheep entered both narrow and wide races faster when there was a wind, but there were no significant differences between the various wind speeds. Once sheep were moving along the race neither wind nor absence of wind affected rate of movement. In experiment 2 the wind machine was used with test sheep randomly orientated in the starting pen. As a control, the noise produced by the machine at each wind speed was recorded and played back through speakers at the end of the race. Wind speed had no effect on sheep movement out of the pen and along the race. It was concluded that an artificial wind can be used to attract sheep to enter a race if they are facing into it, but wind does not stimulate sheep to change orientation in order to move.

Does Mindfulness Training Without Explicit Ethics-Based Instruction Promote Prosocial Behaviors? A Meta-Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1247-1269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Berry ◽  
Jonathan P. Hoerr ◽  
Selena Cesko ◽  
Amir Alayoubi ◽  
Kevin Carpio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Mindfulness Training ◽  
Selective Reporting ◽  
Single Session ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Contemplative Traditions ◽  
Difference Effect ◽  
Prosocial Action

Scholarly discourse has raised concerns about the gravitas of secular mindfulness trainings in promoting prosocial outgrowths, as these trainings lack ethics-based concepts found in contemplative traditions. Random-effects meta-analyses were conducted to test whether mindfulness trainings absent explicit ethics-based instructions promote prosocial action. There was a range of small to medium standardized mean difference effect sizes of mindfulness training on overt acts of prosociality when compared with active and inactive controls, k = 29, N = 3,100, g = .426, 95% confidence interval (CI)( g) = [.304, .549]. Reliable effect size estimates were found for single-session interventions that measured prosocial behavior immediately after training. Mindfulness training also reliably promotes compassionate (but not instrumental or generous) helping and reliably reduces prejudice and retaliation. Publication bias analyses indicated that the reliability of these findings was not wholly dependent on selective reporting. Implications for the science of secular mindfulness training on prosocial action are discussed.

A change‐orientation questionnaire

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-341
Author(s):  
Joseph Smith
Keyword(s):  
Change Orientation

scholarly journals Why Do Firms Have “Purpose”? The Firm's Role as a Carrier of Identity and Reputation

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 326-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Henderson ◽  
Eric Van den Steen
Keyword(s):  
Social Purpose ◽  
Prosocial Action

This article develops a theory in which a firm's adoption of a prosocial purpose can increase profitability by strengthening employees' reputation and identity—leading to higher effort and lower wages—as long as implementing purpose is costly with respect to direct monetary payoffs. Employees who value prosocial action will select into firms with a social purpose, which then become a visible carrier for these employees' identity and reputation.

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