PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dime (United States Coin), Reduced Affect Display, Payphone
8 Mar 2016
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Prosocial behaviour: any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person. Altruism: the desire to help others, even if it involves a cost to the helper. (a) evolutionary psychology: kin selection. A recent analysis of wills found that genetic relatedness was a strong predictor of estate allocations. Some evidence from real emergencies is consistent with this. Infants are more likely to give a toy to a confederate who had intended, but was unable, to give them a toy earlier, than to the confederate who had been unwilling. Infants were as likely to give the toy to a confederate with helpful intentions as to the confederate who had actually been helpful (i. e. giving them the toy earlier: learning social norms. People are genetically programmed to learn social norms, and one of these norms is altruism. Empathy: write down carol"s feelings / write down how the recording is mechanically set up.
