PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Empathic Concern, Prosocial Behavior, Whistle Rymes
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Voluntarily provide help when someone is needed and ask for no returns. Is people be able to give out help without need reward. Cons: when bill gates give out money, more living human more potential window users. Why do people help: learning-through direct persuasion such behavior has been reinforced, arousal, norms, behaviourism: helping is the by-product of the individual"s conditioning history. Batson (1991) empathy-altruism hypothesis sometimes true altruism exist: negative state relief does occur, but, so can perspective-taking, which leads to. Empathic concern being able to see the world through other person-perspective- taking ability, many people under certain age fail to do that, but when they grow up, some of them can do that. True altruism is often found in someone good at perspective-taking: there are individual differences: for a certain (significant) subset of subjects, receiving rewards before the helping opportunity did not diminish their likelihood of helping. Other emotion are evolved other than relief such as empathy.
