PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Daniel Batson, Empathic Concern, Murder Of Kitty Genovese

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Julie Caouette

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Wesley autry jumped onto the train tracks while there was an oncoming train to save a women suffering from a seizure. Paul rusebagina saved over a thousand people during the rwandan genocide by hiding them in his hotel. Definition: unselfish behaviour that benefits others without regards to the consequences for oneself. Out of altruism: motivated by kindness and compassion, truly want to increase another person"s welfare. Out of egotism: motivated by selfish concerns or simple conformity to social norms. Daniel batson (1991) proposes three motives for altruistic behaviour: Social reward (selfish, not pure altruism): a benefit such as praise positive attention, something tangible, or gratitude, that may be gained from helping others, and serves a motive for altruistic behaviour. Self oriented emotion of personal distress (selfish, not pure altruism): a motive for helping others in distress that may arise form a need to reduce one"s own distress.