PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psych, Decision-Making, Menopause
4 Aug 2020
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Altruism is the concept of helping others without expectation of personal gain. Study of unscrambling religious words: those who unscrambled religious phrases were more likely to donate more money later in the study, shows that religion might influence prosocial behaviour. Evolutionary theory is the motivation for survival of ones genes. Suggests and altruistic gene and its survival through sacrifice. Kinship selection more likely to help those were related to. Reciprocal prosocial behaviour: people help others to increase odds of them helping you back, regardless of genetics, shown in animals too. 5 personality dimensions openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability: agreeableness was found to be the greatest predictor of altruism. Empathy: altruistic people generally are high in empathy, research suggests much of empathy is genetic. Moral reasoning: some people are more committed to adhering to moral standards, higher level of reasoning is associated with empathy and altruism. Generally highly religious people are more altruistic.
