PSYC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wesley Autrey, Emotional Contagion, Prosocial Behavior

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23 Oct 2016
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Ses health gradient the comparison btn low ses and high ses against, health, longevity in life low ses are always lower than those who have high ses. Policy/society change: social services utilized (st. michaels hospital) self-help, change in perception, yoga/meditation, exercise, empathy! Ppl may be more willing to share resources then. Potential candidate: genes and genetic mutations, serve & return (warm sensitive parents, society and cultural practices, gene x environment interactions, intergenerational transmission. Rat helped the other rat get out. You"ve spent time with them & are familiar with them rat: if you weren"t familiar with them, would the rat still help the other thus wouldn"t show empathic response. Empathy is much stronger among fam member and familiars. Hypothesis stranger there is higher levels of cortisol in your system cage-mate cortisol levels drop thus, cortisol inhibits your emotional response/emotional contagion it inhibits your ability to be empathetic researchers wanted to study this in humans too.

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