PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Empathic Concern
21 Jun 2016
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When the behavior may be costly or dangerous to the helper and when the helper does not expect to receive material or social rewards for the action. If a person helps in order to get the praise, esteem, or money of others, that person is not perceived to be behaving altruistically. b. i. Not altruism: empathy and altruism, empathy involves focusing on the victim"s experience and reactions and empathic concern that can only be reduced by knowing that the victim no longer suffers a. i. a. ii. Only the costs to the victim, not the helper, and relevant. Escaping the situation can reduce personal distress, but it cannot eliminate empathic concern. Personal distress vs empathic concern: personal distress focuses on the self while empathic concern is more focused on the other. a. iii: from an emergency to a prosocial response, a diffusion of responsibility and the bystander effect a. i. a. ii.
