PSYCH 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Psych, Great Ormond Street Hospital
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**eam says that pure altruism exists and it occurs when people help because they empathize with the sufferer. **nsrm says that pure altruism does not exist and that people help because helping will improve mood state and it will only happen if there is no easier way to improve it. Empathy is one of the variables being studied and they found that inducing empathy leads to more help for those in need, more sympathetic help, and less fickle help, than not inducing empathy. If you feel empathy, you will help and it will be of higher quality help. Sibicky et al. on quality of help. Method: participants thought that they were shocking a participant for wrong answers. The learner is going to solve problems on their computer in a separate room and they can ask the observer for help by giving hints. Quality of help participants are told that they can help the learner by giving them 0-5 hints.
