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prosocial
behaviour
Question | Answer |
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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 |