PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reciprocal Altruism, Ultimatum Game, Cognitive Dissonance
Document Summary
Social psychology: the study of the causes and consequences of sociality. Understanding aspects of our behavior due to other people. Humans need social companionship, we are ultra-social: having a big support group impacts our immune system. Aggression: behavior whose purpose is to harm another. Stems from when we can"t reach our goals. Frustration-aggression hypothesis: a principle stating that animals aggress only when their. Behavior aimed at harming or injuring others: instrumental aggression: motivated by the desire to obtain a concrete goal, such as gaining possession of peer"s toys. Majority of men: related aggression: harms others by damaging their peer relationships. Dave proposed that he keeps , you get . When we feel we are being taken advantage of we are less likely to cooperate with each other. Altruism: behavior that benefits another without benefitting oneself. Reciprocal altruism: behavior that benefits another with the expectation that those benefits will be returned in the future.
