PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Mansbridge, Pluralistic Ignorance
15 Apr 2015
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Question of motives: why do we act to benefit others, we care about welfare of others (altruistic motivation, we care about ourselves (egoistic motivation- we help others because we want them to help us back) Evolutionary perspective- helping is more costly than not helping. They argued that there were only 4-5 people who saw the murder. They argued that at the time it was harder to get help, 911 didn"t exist, etc: why don"t people help, darley & latane (1968) came up with an ingenious answer. There is a state of pluralistic ignorance- everyone saw others watching and saw that nobody was putting a stop to it, so they didn"t do anything (when everyone publically accepts the norm but privately thinks differently) Once we answer the question that there is a problem, we determine if we should do something. Participants in the study see someone having a seizure.
