PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Reciprocal Altruism, Menopause, Gender Role
22 Nov 2018
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Asked students to unscramble either religious card or nonreligious cards before working with another participant and sharing money. Those who were primed with religious cards left more money for their partners and more % of people left more than of the . Religious people may be more altruistic, cueing religious words help stimulate prosocial behaviour. Self-sacrifice to benefit the survival of their genes such as helping their cousins, siblings, children. This altruistic will be passed on from their children, those who are not altruistic will not able to pass on their selfish genes because they do not help their children survive. Have different scenarios (ranging from life-death decision, to everyday helping) for people to answer, manipulating degree of relatedness, emotional closeness and similarity. Finds that we are more likely to help those who are more similar to us and are more emotionally close. We tend to feel closer and more similar to our relatives = more helping.
