SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Good Feeling, Sociobiology, Cardiac Surgery

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Social norms: historical trends in aggression/violence. Aggression any behaviour intended to harm another person that the target person wants to avoid: heart surgery is not aggression, bungled assassination is aggression. Altruism helping that is intended to provide aid to someone else without expectation of any reward: the good feeling that may result is the reward. Aggression/altruism as instinctual: freud: we have an innate urge to destroy. Sociobiology (e. wilson 1975: applies darwinian ideas to animal/human behaviour, aggressive/altruistic behaviour is selectively targeted to increase the chances that our own genes will be passed on to subsequent generations. Cross-cultural variations in aggression/altruism: decline in violent crime rate in canada. Aggressive/altruistic behaviours are learned: bandura (1961) doll study. Altruism: clary & miller (1986): parental influences on future child volunteering. Varied conditions: number of other students (bystanders) participating (2; In reality, no other students in experiment (just recorded voices)

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