CSP 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Egotism, Double Bind

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 161
• Professor: Andrew Elliot

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Altruism vs. egoism: altruism = helping for unselfish reasons, egoism = helping for selfish reasons. People tend to attribute their own helping to altruistic and others" helping to egoistic reasons. Empathy-altruism hypothesis when we see a person in need, we empathize with his/her distress and help even if nothing to gain: empathy vi(cid:272)arious e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of a(cid:374)other"s feeli(cid:374)gs. This is a relatively altruistic explanation there is altruism! Mood management hypothesis we help in order to avoid negative emotions: when we see another person in need of help, we often experience sadness, distress, or anticipate guilt, helping makes us feel good (and avoid feeling badly) This is a relatively egoistic explanation no such thing as altruism. The 2 escape conditions: difficult escape, subjects could either, help elaine by receiving the rest of her shocks, watch elaine receive the rest of her shocks on tv.