PSY-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Prosocial Behavior, Psych, Homeostasis
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Reciprocal liking people in proximity to us and who have our beliefs we belief will like us back so we make relationships with them. If you think someone likes you, you are warmed and self disclose more which allows people to be more responsive and act accordingly and form strong relationships. Expectations about relationships, based in part of the relationship one had with a primary caregiver as an infant. Secure, anxious/ambivalent, avoidant anxious and avoidant people become couples because they both match each other"s relationship schemes: Anxious people expect to be more invested in their relationships than their partners. Avoidant people expect to be less committed than their partners. Even have different attachment with father, mother, each sibling. Any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person. Prosocial behavior motivated purely by desire to help other, even at a cost to the helper. Helping others, even altruism, improves individual fitness.
