PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Ingroups And Outgroups, Distributive Justice, Pluralistic Ignorance
11 Nov 2016
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Altruistic: helping people with no benefit to yourself focus is on other person. Egoistic: helping people for your own benefit focus is on yourself. Empathy-altruism hypothesis: we are motivated to help people in need. Emotional empathy: ability to share feelings and emotions of others (affective. Empathic concern: feelings of concern you have for someone else (affective. Empathic accuracy: how good you are at perceiving other"s thoughts and feelings (cognitive components) Mirror neurons: areas of the brain that are more active when you see someone in pain. Negative-state belief model (cialdini): the reason we help others is to get us out of a negative state (egoistic behavior) Competitive altruism: ironic; helping others to boost your own status and to make yourself look good (egoistic behavior) Kin selection (cialdini 1997): helping gene; more likely to help people you know over people you don"t know; said to be based on genetic makeup; more likely to help a child over the elderly.
