PSYC 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance, Dont
22 Apr 2018
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Prosocial behaviour: an act performed with the goal of bene ting another person (might expect something in return) Altruism: is the desire to help others, even if it involves a cost to the helper (to ur self) The study of prosocial behaviour started when a women was attacked and killed and everyone watched, 38 ppl just watched and no one called the police, they heard her scream (1964) Women with dementia went out in frigid temp"s and was screaming and no one went, and her husband found her frozen body, she died. Evolutionary psychology suggests that altruism may have evolved via:- three ways altruism came about: kin selection, reciprocity, the ability to learn social norms. Behaviour that helps a genetic relative is favoured by natural selection. Ppl who share our genes we help them cause they will pass on our genes as well. Only help a person who is genetically related to u.
