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Helping behavior
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<p>Helping behavior refers to voluntary actions intended to help others, with reward regarded or disregarded. It is a type of <a href="/facts/Prosocial_behavior/kBLsbSLk">prosocial behavior</a> (voluntary action intended to help or benefit another individual or group of individuals, such as sharing, comforting, rescuing and helping). </p><p><a href="/facts/Altruism/ztvkVwW1">Altruism</a> is distinguished from helping behavior in this way: Altruism refers to prosocial behaviors that are carried out without expectation of obtaining external reward (concrete reward or social reward) or internal reward (self-reward). An example of altruism would be anonymously donating to charity. </p>