01:830:321 Lecture 4: 03679-Social-Psychology-2016-05-02
21 Jun 2016
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**exam will include additional section with the options of either clinical or court questions** Empathy-altruism hypothesis (batson: other in need (aversive stimulus) low empathic or high empathic reaction (affect) Low empathy personal distress act to reduce personal distress help, escape, deny, or distort. High empathy experience other"s distress (other"s distress becomes personal distress) act to reduce other"s distress help. Half of subjects were asked to imagine how the person felt (high empathy) ^ all take functional view of helping others. General suggestions to make people more helpful: reward prosocial behavior (be careful see attribution research, model prosocial behavior, empathy training, practice prosocial behavior (see self-perception research) Learn about helping research (e. g. , beaman experiment mentioned in text. Knowledge of helping research - beaman et al. Subjects heard lecture about bystander intervention research or not (control) 2 weeks later, subject (with unresponsive confederate) walks past someone slumped over or under bicycle. Results: 25% helping in control condition; 50% helping in.
