PSYC 198 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gender Role, Influence Of Mass Media, Realistic Conflict Theory
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Jealousy vs. envy: jealousy involves triad relationships. Feel jealous when there is a rival coming in to break your relationship (a girl you like kissing a different guy: envy is when someone has something that you want (ice cream situation) Characteristics of envy-producing situations: self-relevance domain: salovey and rodin (1984) experiment, college students wrote a paragraph about their career interest, then took a bogus career aptitude test. Intention is more important than action: children more interested in the outcome than the reasoning behind the behavior. Ex: children believe that if you break an expensive vase unintentionally, that is worse that if you break an inexpensive vase intentionally: altruism: helping others despite a cost to ourselves, silk et al. 2005 experiment: trained chimps to pull on rope to get food for themselves, chimps saw another chimp in another cage that (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t get food. If both you and your partner confess, both 5 years in jail.
