PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Payphone, Bla Bla Bla, Egotism
8 Dec 2015
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Having a positive behaviour towards social situations to help others. Helping others for no possible benefit to self; truly generous; no expectations unconsciously/consciously that you will be rewarded. Outline: evolutionary models, social psychology models, situational models. Inclusive fitness: our selfish genes protecting themselves. Does the average person behave as though they know this: carnegie hero fund commission awards metals to behave. Prosocially , impressed by people who risk their lives for people who they"re not related to, only will award this to people who save their kin have died: bernstein, crandall & kitayama (1994, everyday, life or death. In everyday iv, asked to go grab them some milk, move this weekend, etc. Life or death iv, 3 different people are sleeping in 3 different rooms in a burning house, you can only save one person. Dv: scores on a likelihood of helping index.
