PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Design Of Experiments, Glossary Of Riemannian And Metric Geometry, Murder Of Kitty Genovese

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

Document Summary

Meaningful and small/big ways of helping someone. Recent statistics for canadian charity donations: every 1 out of 2 would volunteer in an organization. In 2002, 50% canadians volunteered at some organization i. e. leadership roles, organizations. Question of motives: (not behaviour, behaviour is happening but is this altruistic or. We care about welfare about others (altruistic motivation) sense of compassion towards others. We care about ourselves (egoistic motivation) we help others because we want that help to come back to us in the future. Evolutionary perspective helping is more costly than not helping. We avoid helping others when we can. When we can"t avoid, we help others more. Notion that we care about ourselves more. A look at history: there is a strong assumption in psychology of universal egoism. We do not have a strong argument to favour egoism: this is the majority view in economics, political science and philosophy (mansbridge 1990)