PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Natural Disaster, Convenience Store, The Control Group
12 Feb 2015
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: behaviour whose immediate goal is to help or benefit: can take many different forms. For certain organs you can be a living donar like for a kidney, piece of liver because you don"t need two kidneys. There are anonoymous organ donor , who just gives to people they havent met before. Empathy is a factor : putting yourself in someone elses shoe. Postive attitudes toward the behaviour of being organ donor. 2)people who want to help others, they just have this desire. 3)knowing someone who has received or donated an organ. : when you help someone, they are likely to: helping kin (family) who share your genes, means that you"ve increased the likelihood of their survival and passing those shared genes on to the next generation. This is prosocial help in animal: benefits to the group, groups with prosocial rather than selfish members are often more likely to survive, particularly in bad times (e. g. , famine, conflict)
