PSY 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13-13.3 & 13.5: Implicit-Association Test, Social Loafing, Pluralistic Ignorance
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Kohlberg states that we should ask about the reasons for their decisions, not just the decisions themselves when evaluating people"s moral reasoning. It"s common for people to make a quick decision and then look for reasons afterward rather than thinking before acting. Altruistic behavior is helping others despite a cost to ourselves. In almost every species, animals devote great energies and risk their lives to help their babies or other relatives. But they seldom do much to help unrelated individuals. This is unusual in the human race because we are different from other species. A situation where people choose between a cooperative act and a competitive act that benefits themselves but hurts others. Bibb latane and john darley proposed that being in a crowd decreases our probability of action because of diffusion of responsibility: we feel less responsibility to act when other people are equally able to act.
