PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 69: Kew Gardens, Queens, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Egotism
9 May 2016
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Killer stabbed, left, returned to rape and stab again. Actions that are carried out to benefit others; helping. Altruistic helping: help motivated by desire to increase another"s welfare. Egoistic helping: help motivated by desire to increase one"s own welfare. The unhelpful crowd: darley & latane (1968) 1 other vs groups of or 6. Discuss common problems of college students over intercom. The ambiguous situation: latane & darley (1968) Male college students, study of urban life. P filled out questionnaire alone in room (one condition) Pluralistic ignorance: when people mistakenly believe their thoughts and feelings are different from others". Audience inhibition effect: when people fear others will evaluate them negatively if they intervene and situation is not an emergency. Diffusion of responsibility: when people believe others will or should take responsibility for providing help. On jobs for seminary student; on parable of gs. Must walk to building to give speech. All pass a man groaning in hall.
