PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Glossary Of Riemannian And Metric Geometry, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance
22 Apr 2017
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Why do we act to benefit others: we care about welfare of others (altruistic motivation, we care about ourselves (egoistic motivation) There is a strong assumption in psychology of universal egoism: this is the majority view in economics, political science, and philosophy (mansbridge, greek philosopher epictetus. Alternative analysis: the probable of the 38 witnesses (manning, levine & collins, 2007) Darley & latane (1968) came up with an ingenious answer. they suggested that after noticing the problem, people have to take sequential actions before helping. What is the problem: latane and darley"s experiments (1968, 1970, a state of pluralistic ignorance. Is it my responsibility: darely and latane"s study (1968, diffusion of responsibility. Thursday, march 9, 2017: a sense of competence (do you think you can do anything) Three fundamental forms of egoistic prosocial behaviour: gaining rewards. Kinship selection - the more genetically similar you are, the more likely you are to help them: reciprocity credit.
