PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ultimatum Game, Reciprocal Altruism, Deindividuation

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Benjamin Cheung, Simon Lolliot

Document Summary

Psych 102 lecture 15 social psychology: cooperation and groups. The study of the causes and consequences of sociality. There are notable social psychology research profs at ubc. We depend on each other: humans are group animals and we create things together. We begin cooperating with one another from early on. You need to invest in someone else"s ability to reciprocate. It would be best to cooperate but it is obviously hard to trust that your partner will also cooperate. The economic model predicts that no matter how less you receive, you would always choose to accept because some money is better than no money. Surian and franchin (2017) found that toddlers are more likely to help an individual who has behaved fairly in the past. Group: a collection of people who have somehting in common that distinguishes them from others.