SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Good Feeling, Cardiac Surgery, Longitudinal Study

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

Document Summary

Aggression is any behaviour intended to harm another person that the target wants to avoid: heart surgery is not aggression, a bungled assassination is aggression. Altruism is helping that is intended to provide aim to someone else with the expectation any reward: the good feeling that may result is the reward. Aggression/altruism: freud: we have an innate urge to destroy. Sociobiology (e. wilson 1975: applies darwinian theories to animal/human behaviour, aggressive/altruism behaviour is selectively targeted to increase the chances that our own genes will be passes on to our subsequent generations. Evaluating the evolutionary explanation of aggression and altruism. Cross-cultural variations in aggression/altruism: decline in violent crime rate in canada. Aggressive/altruistic behaviours are learned: bandura (1961) doll study. Altruism: clary and miller (1986): parental influences on future child volunteering. Varied conditions: number of students (bystanders) and how many participating (2,5,6: in reality, no other students in the experiment (just recorded voices)