PSYC 023 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Reciprocal Altruism, Moe Williams, Prosocial Behavior
12 May 2020
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Evolutionary psychology explains social behavior in terms of genetics natural selection. Kinship election tendency to help genetic relatives. Reciprocal altruism: helping someone may increase likelihood that you will be helped in return. People react to emergency situations by acting in the most cost-effective way to reduce arousal of shock and alarm. May help because motivated to behave in ways that are consistent with moral principles: it"s the right thing to do. Helping can have negative health effects if involves constant and exhausting demands. Good samaritan laws to reduce potential costs. Altruistic: motivated by desire to increase another"s welfare. Egoistic: motivated by desire to increase one"s own welfare. Batson: motivation behind some helpful action is truly altruistic. Empathy altruism hypothesis: when we feel empathy, we will attempt to help purely for altruistic reasons, regardless of what we have to gain. Empathy: when we are able to experience events and emotions the wat that the person experiences them.
