PSYC20009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Smoke-Filled Room, Grater, Agreeableness

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20009
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Identifiable victim effect: tendency to offer grater help to specific, identifiable victims than to anonymous, statistical victims: small, loewenstein & slovic (2007): easier to empathise with singular identifiable victim. Individual differences (e. g. agreeableness etc. : accessibility of prosocial thoughts, greitemeyer & osswald (2010): play prosocial or neutral video game, report prosocial thoughts. Personality & social psychology: norm of privacy, shotland & straw (1976): staged a physical attack between man (aggressor) & woman (victim), where the man either said: I don"t know you (65% intervened to help), or. I don"t know why i ever married you (19% intervened: do you have the time, darley & batson (1973): good samaritan" study, seminary students, prepare a talk: jobs or good samaritan" (priming manipulation) Hurry" condition: hurry vs intermediate hurry" vs control: told they have to give their talk across campus, saw a man in need, helped if, control: 63%, intermediate: 45%, hurry: 10% Increasing helping: reducing ambiguity, teach & activate prosocial norms.