PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Egotism, Prosocial Behavior
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Answer increases another"s regard for one"s self interests welfare without conscious. People help because of many different reasons: social exchange, social norms, to aid survival. For example people benefit most from relationships with one"s rewards and minimize one"s others that don"t the one"s that require one to put in a lot of effort are people tend to cherish. Rewards also motivate people internally or externally: social norms is when a person believes that it is in their self interest and feels that helping others is something that they have to do. Social norms prescribe proper behavior: people aid survival through kin selection, which is the idea that evolution has selected altruism towards one"s family to increase of survival of genes that are shared. Genetic self- enhancement also predicts reciprocity (helping others and expecting help in return). An example of egotism would be someone who is very self-centered and thinks about him or her before thinking about others.
