PSYC 2700H Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Kin Selection, Ingroups And Outgroups
29 Mar 2017
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Why do people help: prosocial behaviour is any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person, altruism is the desire to help others, even if it involves a cost to the helper. Kin selection, reciprocity, the ability to learn social norms: kin selection: a genetic relative is fav by natural selection, the norm of reciprocity: thelping others will increase the likelihood they will help us in the future. Empathy (ability to experience events and emotions the way another person experiences them) o. Hypothesis (when we feel empathy for a person, we will attempt to help him or her purely for altruistic reasons) Altruistic personality (the aspects of a person"s makeup that are said to make him or her likely to help others in a wide variety of situations) Beh. o acts of bravery and heroism o. Women- more likely to give supportive long term help to individuals, groups, and important causes.
