PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Interpersonal Attraction, Moral Reasoning
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Three factors that explain why people help those in need: evolutionary factors, personality, religion. Cueing people with religious words can increase prosocial behaviour. Arousal/cost-reward model: describes helping as the costs and benefits of providing that help. The impact of mood, modeling, and environmental factors on prosocial behaviour. The large number of people who watched kitty genovese"s attack partially explains why she didn"t receive help. Interpersonal attraction motives drive volunteerism with hiv patients for heterosexual people, and empathy based motives drive such volunteerism for homosexual people. Factors that impact whether people get help when they"re in need: person factors (such as gender, age, attractiveness, personality, social norms (such as reciprocity, social responsibility, relationship factors (such as similarity and friendship) Women are more likely to get help than men are. Culture impacts prosocial behaviour, including: frequency of helping, motivations for helping, factors that increase helping.
