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  2. Relief (emotion) - Wikipedia

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    Relief is a positive emotion experienced when something unpleasant, painful or distressing has not happened or has come to an end. [1]Often accompanied by sighing, an exowhich signals emotional transition, [2] relief is universally recognized, [3] and judged as a fundamental emotion.

  3. Negative-state relief model - Wikipedia

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    Many researchers have challenged the generalizability of the model. It was found that effect of negative state relief on helping behaviour varied with ages. [8] For very young children, a negative mood would not increase their helpfulness because they had not yet learned to associate pro-social behaviour with social rewards.

  4. Poverty reduction - Wikipedia

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    Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classic Progress and Poverty , are those that raise, or are intended to raise, ways of enabling the poor to ...

  5. Mutual aid - Wikipedia

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    Mutual aid is an organizational model where voluntary, collaborative exchanges of resources and services for common benefit take place amongst community members to overcome social, economic, and political barriers to meeting common needs. This can include physical resources like food, clothing, or medicine, as well as services like breakfast ...

  6. Social services - Wikipedia

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    Social services, such as education, have been required to adapt to changing social conditions while still providing essential services. [27] Social services have expanded worldwide through the introduction of economic stimulus packages, with governments globally committing US$130 Billion as of June 2020 to manage the pandemic.

  7. Humanitarian education - Wikipedia

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    Humanitarian education teaches various social topics from a humanitarian perspective. A desire to reduce suffering, save lives and maintain human dignity is central to understanding humanitarian education. It is based on the assumption that people have an innate desire to help others, so is centrally concerned with our shared humanity. [1]

  8. Social protection - Wikipedia

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    Social protection is an expensive and difficult endeavor, by any means; the question remains how best to implement programs that effectively aid the people who need it the most. Currently, there are a number of mechanisms that provide social protection in various nations. These policies and instruments vary according to country context.

  9. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    Relief theory suggests humor is a mechanism for pent-up emotions or tension through emotional relief. In this theory, laughter serves as a homeostatic mechanism by which psychological stress is reduced [1] [2] [6] Humor may thus facilitate ease of the tension caused by one's fears, for example.