PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Elyn Saks, Schizophrenia, Frans De Waal

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 103
• Professor: Nancy Franklin

Document Summary

Deep down, we are all competitors and look out for our own interests. Chimpanzees reconcile after fights - valuable relationship damaged by conflict that needs to be fixed. Pillar of morality = reciprocity (fairness) and empathy (compassion) Understand need for partner and others are willing to help even if they don"t need to - expect to be returned the favor in the future. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Chimpanzees do care about the wellbeing of their peers. The surprising science of happiness - dan gilbert. Mass of brain has tripled in size and has gained new structures prefrontal cortex (experience stimulator), you can think of a situation before it happens. Impact bias - tendency for stimulator to work badly, things have far less duration than people expect them to have. We think things will affect us longer.