PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Town Crier, Organ Donation, Empathic Concern
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: behaviour whose immediate goal is to help or benefit others: can take many different forms. For certain organs you can be a living donar like for a kidney, piece of liver because you don"t need two kidneys. There are anonoymous organ donor , who just gives to people they havent met before. Empathy is a factor : putting yourself in someone elses shoe. Postive attitudes toward the behaviour of being organ donor. 2)people who want to help others, they just have this desire. 3)knowing someone who has received or donated an organ. Three ways in which helping others could be evolutionarily beneficial: benefits to the individual, helping sometimes involves a reward for the helper as well as the. Helpee : reciprocal helping in the future, which may improve your chances of survival. We are social creatures we can only survive in groups. The prosocial groups are the ones that will survive.
