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Ch 11: Prosocial
Term | Definition |
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any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person | prosocial behavior |
the desire to help another person if it involves a cost to the helper | altruism |
the idea that behaviors that help a genetic relative are favored by natural selection | kin selection |
the expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future | norm of reciprocity |
the ability to put oneself in the shoes of another person and to experience events and emotions the way that person experiences them | empathy |
the idea that when we feel empathy for a person, we will attempt to help that person for purely altruistic reasons, regardless of what we have to gain | empathy altruism hypothess |
the qualities that cause an individual to help others in a wide variety of situations | altruistic personality |
the group with which an individual identifies as a member | in group |
any group with which an individual does not identify | out group |
the theory that people living in cities are constantly bombarded with stimulation and that they keep to themselves to avoid being overwhelmed by it | urban overload hypothesis |
the finding that greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help | bystander effect |
the case in which people think that everyone else is interpreting a situation in a certain way, when in fact they are not | pluralistic ignorance |
he phenomenon wherein each bystander’s sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witnesses increases → no single bystander feels a strong personal responsibility to act | diffusion of responsibility |