PSYC 3030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Glossary Of Riemannian And Metric Geometry, Psych, Design Of Experiments

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3030
• Professor: afdar

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Motives: we act to benefit others because we care about welfare of others (altruistic motivation, we act to benefit others because we care about ourselves (egoistic motivation, evolutionary perspective. History: there is a strong assumption in psychology of universal egoism. Majority seen in economics, political science and philosophy (mansbridge, 1990) 38 witnesses: silent witnesses the kitty genovese murder (1964, alternative analysis: the probably of the 38 witnesses (manning, levine, & collins, 2007) Why don"t people help: darley & latane (1968) came up with an ingenious answer. They suggested that after noticing the problem, people have to take sequential decisions before helping. Psychological answers: three fundamental forms of egoistic prosocial behaviour. Burstein et al. (1994) preferential helping of relatives in trouble. Burstein et al. (1994) decision rules in helping behaviour. Social psych - altruism: reciprocity credit, positive mood. Avoiding punishment (egoistic prosocial behaviour: fines/imprisonment, norm violation. Reducing aversive arousal (egoistic prosocial behaviour: escaping one"s own distress.