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The search for the prosocial personality has been long and controversial. The current research explores the general patterns underlying prosocial decisions, linking personality, emotion, and overt prosocial behavior. Using a multimethod approach, we explored the links between the Big Five dimensions of personality and prosocial responding. Across three studies, we found that agreeableness was the dimension of personality most closely associated with emotional reactions to victims in need of help, and subsequent decisions to help those individuals. Results suggest that prosocial processes, including emotions, cognitions, and behaviors, may be part of a more general motivational process linked to personality., (© 2016 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.)

The article focuses on two social behaviors such as prejudice and helping that lead to self-regulation and social accommodation. It says that G. W. Allport views in his book "The Nature of Prejudice" that prejudice is a manifestation of personality. It adds that acts of helping are motivated by self interests wherein it promote the helper's own interests or relieve the providers suffering and its victim. Moreover, the opponent process model (OPM) implies that prejudice was internally motivated.