PSY 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Empathic Concern, Prosocial Behavior, Pluralistic Ignorance
4 Dec 2018
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Motives: social reward: a benefit, such as praise, positive attention, something tangible, or gratitude, that may be gained from helping others, and serves as a motive for altruistic behavior, could be on social media or mass media. Motivated by social rewards and positive regard of others. Competitive altruism is when people are trying to outdo one another in their altruistic acts and being the most highly esteemed: personal distress: people are motivated to help others in need in order to reduce their own distress. Later in life when we see someone crying, or experiencing embarrassment or pain we usually experience our own feelings of personal distress, the pain regions of the brain are then activated. Helps the person even at our own expense. Empathetic concern: batson study---those participants who mostly felt distress and could escape took few shocks on behalf of the confederate.
