L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Ice Cream Cake, Prosocial Behavior, Egocentrism
5 Mar 2019
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Criticisms: unrealistic dilemmas eisenberg, unrealistic for children, doesn"t relate to children"s lives, eisenberg children don"t have great moral dilemmas in their lives. The dilemmas they have are more based upon self interest or having to weigh their self-interest with interests of others: eisenberg"s vignette one day a boy named eric was going to a friend"s birthday party. On his way he saw a boy who had fallen down and hurt his leg. The boy asked eric to go to his house and get his parents so the parents could come and take him to a doctor. But if eric did run and get the child"s parents, he would be late to the birthday party and miss the ice cream cake, and all the games. What should eric do and why? : notion of self-interest that"s build in with this scenario, his interest against the boy who"s hurt.
