PSY BEH 104S Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pluralistic Ignorance, First Aid, Dennis Amiss
20 Jan 2017
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Crash air florida flight go washington, dc jan, 13, 1982. People are hanging on to a airplane flying done, one man saves them all, and then dies. People go in to save people, risking your life. Shindler- he and many others saving peoples life"s at their own risk. Unselfish behavior that benefits others without regard to consequences for the self. Altruism is paradoxical from the view of all major theories of behavior. Behavior ism, freud, darwin all view people as inherently egoistic (making reward, min cost, seof interest) Natural selection will never produce anything in an organism being injurious to itself, for natural selection acts sole by and for the good of each. He who was ready to sacrifice his life rather than betray his comrades, would often leave no offspring to inherit his noble nature. Behavior that helps other who have your genes (relatives) can be selected for.
