| Question |
Answer |
| norm of repiprocity |
the expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that htey will help us in the future |
| by stander effect |
the effect by which the presence of others inhibits helping |
| alturistic |
motivated by the desire to improve anothers welfare |
| kin selection |
is the idea that behaviours thathelp a genetic relative are favoured by naturalselection. |
| empathy-altruism hypothesis |
statesthat when we feel empathy for a person, wewill attempt to help purely for altruisticreasons, that is, regardless of what we have togain. |
| negative-state releif hypothesis |
says that wehelp others to alleviate our own ‘bad mood’only if we take responsibility for our moodand are ‘other’ focussed. |
| pluralistic ignorance |
the state in which people mistakenly believe that their own thoughts and feelings are different form those of others, even when everyones behaviour is the same |
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