PSYC 3302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Public Goods Game, Agreeableness, Kin Selection

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3302
• Professor: John M.Zelenski

Document Summary

What are some ways people perceive growth following traumatic events: relationships to others get better, spiritual change- deeper change in religious commitment, new possibilities, personal strength. According to the frazier study how are perceptions of post-traumatic growth related to actual changes over time: they are different in the outcomes they produced, religious commitment- people who actually changed thought they had more growth. What are main limitations of fraizer study: some trauma not as intense, only a student sample, only 2 month waiting period for trauma to happen- assessing growth after 2 months. Includes anything that increases another"s well-being: cooperation, helping, sharing. The bystander effect: diffusion of responsibility. Evolutionary approaches: kin selection, reciprocal altruism. Negative state relief: when someone else is in need it makes us feel bad. So we do get a reward: if you"re not motivated to do it for the mood boost then it"s altruistic, helping doesn"t always make us feel good.