Psychology 3720F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personal Distress, Reduct, Collectivism

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Altruistic helping: the ultimate goal is to increase our own welfare, the ultimate goal is to increase the other persons welfare. Empathy altruism model: begins when we perceive that someone needs help, do we adopt the others perspective, if no (we don"t adopt the perspective): This model predicts that our primary emotional. Response will be: personal distress (a self-oriented reaction; we feel anxious and upset); motivated to reduce it. Emotional response: empathy (empathic concern) other-oriented; we feel sympathy or compassion for the person in need;; motivated to reduce this concern. Ultimate goal: to reduce the other persons distress. Important features of the eam model: egoism and altruism are define in terms of ultimate goals . Evolutionary biologists define altruism in terms of consequences, not goals (increases fitness of recipient and decreases fitness of helper) Factors that influence perspective taking : prior experience in a similar situation.

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