PSY-P 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Lung Cancer, Social Desirability Bias, Far-Left Politics
9 Aug 2016
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Long-term helping sustained better with egoistic motives a. i. Ferguson et al. (2008) blood donation of british students a. i. 1. 2 types of messages: donating makes people feel better v. helping people with diseases a. i. 1. a. When people in a group mistakenly think that their own individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are different from the other group members a. ii. 3. A belief that others will or should take responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need a. iii. Step 1: notice that something is happening a. iii. 2. a. Im late for a very important date a. iii. 3. Step 2: interpret event as an emergency a. iii. 4. Step 3: take responsibility for providing help a. iii. 5. Im not trained to handle this, and who would i call? a. iii. 6. He"ll sue me: robust supported by several meta-analyses, weaker for dangerous vs. non-dangerous situations (fisher, 2011, qualified by group size: as groups become larger: the odds that at-least someone will help increases (stalder, 2008) d. i.
