PSYCH 3BA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Egotism, Gratitud, Dictator Game
27 Jan 2016
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Chapter 11: empathy and egotism - portals to altruism, gratitude and forgiveness. The genetic and neural foundations of empathy empathy correlations for monozygotic and dizygotic twins found to be 0. 41 and 0. 05 respectively; other studies show correlations in range of 0. 22-0. 30 for mono and 0. 05 to. Cultural variations in altruism differences between genders, cultural ideologies and religious backgrounds. Huber and macdonald (2012) - empathy linked to religiousness and altruism most strongly linked to spiritual experiences and spiritual cognitions; non-religious spiritual cognitions also strongly linked to empathy in particular. Motivations in older adults toward volunteer work and found that those whose primary motivations were for self-gain had higher mortality risk 4 years after study in comparison to those whose primary motivations were more directed at helping others. Mechanism but these games could introduce interviewer bias and assumptions made for various behaviours. Cultural variations in gratitude reactions to expressions of gratitude may differ between east and west.
