PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Good Samaritan Law, Design Of Experiments, Murder Of Kitty Genovese
14 Mar 2017
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Why do we act to benefit others. We care about welfare of others (altruistic motivation) Helping makes sense if it helps yourself. Assumption that people help others in order to help themselves. This is the majority view in economics, political science & philosophy. Consistent with what early philosophers wrote in terms of the human tendency. Animal tendency within us says there is nothing we love more than. Main reason people didn"t call is that they didn"t want to have to fill out forms. Hearing gunshots and no one looks into it or makes it call. We end up doing nothing because we assume someone else will do something. Alternative analysis: the probable of the 38 witness. New york times sensationalized this number when in fact, there weren"t. After noticing the problem, people have to take a sequential decisions before helping. First we interpret the situation and identify it as an emergency.
