PSY-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ingroups And Outgroups, Psych, United Airlines Flight 93
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Helping others increases the likelihood they will help us in the future. Could have evolved to be part of the human species. Economics of helping: desire to maximize our rewards and minimize our costs. People responsive to economics in their relationships with others. True altruism people helping even when doing so is costly to themselves does not exist. People help when the benefits > costs. Investment in financial social exchanges, that someone will help us when needed. Gains social approval from others, increased feelings of self-worth. We identified 3 basic motives underlying prosocial behavior helping others. To promote the welfare of those genetically similar to us (evolutionary. Rewards outweigh the costs, so helping is in our self-interest (social change. Feelings of empathy and compassion for a victim prompt helping (the theory) empathy-altruism hypothesis) Qualities that cause an individual to help others in a variety of situations.
