PSYCH-190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Reciprocal Altruism, Social Influence, Kin Selection
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An attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Behavior that benefits another without benefiting oneself. Kin selection: the process by which evolution selects for individuals who. Reciprocal altruism: behavior that benefits another with the expectation that those cooperate with their relatives benefits will be returned in the future. Predictors of any kind of interpersonal relationship. Situational factors can be the geographic location. Mere exposure effect: the tendency for liking to increase with the frequency of exposure. This might have been due to the mere exposure effect in which you begin to like something simply because you are exposed to it over and over again. I bet if you think about it you can come up with all sorts of things that you like simply because you are exposed to it repeatedly.