PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Glossary Of Riemannian And Metric Geometry, Mudita, Pluralistic Ignorance
8 Dec 2014
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Why do we act to benefit others: we care about welfare of others (altruistic motivation) no benefit in helping other (for self, we care about ourselves (egotistic motivation). Care about others because we care about own wellbeing. Evolutionary perspective (it is costly to be altruistic, every time you see an altruistic behaviour there is an egoistic motivation) There is a strong assumption in psychology of universal egoism. we help others cause we want to help ourselves pure altruistic behaviour doesn"t really exist. This is the majority view in economics, political science, and philosophy (mansbridge 1990) Greek philosopher epictetus you are more important that anything/anyone else. We want to be seen as giving and not as selfish. Silent witnesses: the kitty genovese murder (1964). I didn"t want to get involved , most common answer from the 38 witnesses that saw that murder and didn"t do a thing. Alternative analysis: the probable of the 38 witness (manning, levine and.
