PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psych, Ingroups And Outgroups, Psy

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: cianci

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Aspects of a person and your relationship to the person influence helping. As you get older you become aware that asking for help shows dependence/weakness. Also get more help even in situations where there is no hope for future interaction. Socially anxious ppl receive lower levels of social support from friends. Ppl with high self esteem less willing to seek help; when they get unsolicited help they feel bad. More likely to receive social support though. Norm of reciprocity: people usually give back to those who have helped them. Norm of social responsibility: obligation to help. We react negatively to receiving help when it makes us feel inferior and dependant on the helper. We react negatively to receiving help if the help comes from people similar to us, especially on tasks we care about: peer tutoring programs are a problem bc of this. People react negatively if they feel that they don"t have a way to repay for the help.