PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mother Teresa, Pluralistic Ignorance, In-Group Favoritism
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How can we increase helping: what is prosocial behaviour. Any act performed with the goal of beneiing another person. Helping a litle bother with his homework (for example if you don"t have any work that night) Can be moivated by selish or selless reasons. Selish: you feel good about yourself (you are beneiing from that act) Selless: we don"t gain anything but we do it bc the other person is gaining altruism. The desire to help another person, even if it involves a cost to the helper. 13 year old boy, heard people screaming and saw that there was a burning house and there were 3 young children and got them out. Rocky saw the adult that had passed out inside the house, he found an adult to help the adult out. He went back into the house muliple imes to get them out. He told people he didn"t know why he was doing it, he was just acing.
