PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance, Glossary Of Riemannian And Metric Geometry

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Altruism: we care about the welfare of others (altruistic motivation, we care about ourselves we are helping ourselves (egoistic motivation) There is a strong assumption in psychology of universal egoism. This is the majority view in economics, political science, & philosophy. Silent witnesses: the kitty genovese murder (1964) Alternative analysis: the probable of the 38 witness. Darley & latane (1968) came up with an ingenious answer. Don"t want to act too quickly if nothing is wrong. No one is doing anything, but should i? . Darley & latane"s study participants who believed they were alone went to find the source of the noise & go help; participants who believed there were other people around did not help. Three fundamental forms of egoistic prosocial behaviour: gaining rewards. More helpful to relatives who are more genetically related. More helpful to sick people, but more helpful to healthy people in life/death situation. Reciprocity credit: we help those who have helped us.