PSYC 2P30 Lecture Notes - Noxious Stimulus, Scapegoating, Naturalistic Observation
5 Apr 2013
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Situational factors: urban vs. rural, common fate, bystander. Pro-social behaviour: any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person (or society as a whole) Altruism: desire to help others, even if it involves a cost to the helped. Empathy: experience events and emotion (e. g. joy, sadness) as another person experiences. Help others to help self: helping other to ease our own distress (dovidio et al. , 2991) Or empathy-altruism hypothesis: empathy helping for altruistic reasons; regardless of gains or helping self. Toi & batson (1982: learn of classmate ( carol ) was hurt in a care accident; in wheelchair, couldn"t come to class, question: will ps help her, independent variable 1: empathy. High (imagine carol"s feelings: independent variable 2: cost to participant. Low (she will never come to class) High (she will come to class next week; i. e. she is inescapable, she"ll know if you don"t help her: results:
