PSY220H1 Lecture : Lecture slides
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Why do people help: learning, arousal, norms, behaviourism: helping is the by-product of the individual"s conditioning history. Cialdini et al. (1987) negative state relief model : arousal, labeling that arousal with a particular emotion, the label that"s generated is cued by situational features. Cialdini et al. (1987) found that people are less likely to help someone if immediately before the opportunity to help they receive praise or money, or if people are led to believe that helping does not improve mood. www. notesolution. com. Batson (1991) empathy-altruism hypothesis : negative state relief does occur, but, so can perspective-taking, which leads to. Empathic concern : there are individual differences: for a certain (significant) subset of subjects, receiving rewards before the helping opportunity did not diminish their likelihood of helping. Upon arrival, ps told that upcoming study involves people"s task performance under unpleasant conditions. One of the ps will perform a task while receiving mild electric shocks, the other will observe.
