Abstract
The idea in the background of the origins of this monograph developed for more than one year in connection with the Curriculum Studies Research Group, with registered office in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic. The small group, freely joining researchers mainly from universities of the Czech Republic and other countries not only of the European Union, is primarily focused on the issues of education data mining and of communication of results of scientific research.
The e-conferences organized by the Curriculum Studies Research Group for four years already present also regularly the results of scientific results related to human helping, prosocial behaviour, volunteerism, empathy or shaping of prosocial behaviour by external circumstances. The main arguments for origination of this monograph included strengthening of the status of research of helping, prosocial behaviour and altruism in the Czech Republic, as well as the need to present relevant research results that would react to open discussion of a number of tragic cases of not helping people in situations when they needed it.