PSYC 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prosocial Behavior, Anti-Social Behaviour, John D. Kasarda
10 Sep 2015
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--come up with 2 questions to send him for the exam--- How does city life affect people"s secondary relations (relationship with strangers?) Tonnes and ___, said that it has a negative effect. Research on prosocial behavior, the city does weaken the social fabric. Steblay: goes beyond child study and does metanalysis of 65 comparisons 46/65 were less helpful in the city only 9/65 were more helpful in the city. Studies on deviance crime, violence, substance abuse, manipulation. In the old times, cities were shown to actually be safer than a rural area. Highway man a criminal if you go outside the city, there are highway men. Highway men robbed the stage coaches in the olden days as people left the city to go to another city, they were robbed. When cities became large (1mil+) is when the chaos and crime came into the city the crime got out of hand.
