The research conducted so far on helping behavior in emergency circonstances showed that the large majority of the witnessesin such circonstances avoid to help the victim. Several experiments conducted with children as subjects reached similar conclusions and some of them even revealed a drop in the rate of interventions between 9 and 12 years of age. This paper presents the results of a series of experiments which tested different training programs in social education designed specifically to develop altruistic attitudes. The data collected suggest that if the treatment is spread over a sufficient period of time and centered on the various aspects of helping behavior (social, cognitive, emotional) it increases significantly the frequency of helping intervention, including of those which can be considered as most costly to the subject.
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