PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Causal Inference, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance
27 Mar 2018
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Helping in an emergency would be a subset of prosocial behavior. The practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others (opposed to. In animal behavior: behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage, but that benefits others of its kind. Example: a warning cry that reveals the location of the caller to the predator: theoretical explanations for prosocial behaviors. Empathy-altruism hypothesis : pure desire to help; helping because you care. Thus we want to bring their negative feelings to an end. Empathy : the capacity to experience others" emotional states vicariously. Altruism is doing something for someone else with no thought of reward. Empathy-altruism hypothesis : some prosocial behavior is motivated solely by desire. Gleason"s three components of empathy: (test question: according to gleason, which to help someone who is in need. Empathy is not needed, unhappiness about anything can motivate prosocial behavior. Empathic joy hypothesis : motivated by the positive feeling one gets.
