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helping others

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Helping is a complex behaviour that involves thoughts and feelings 3 factors?   show
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show Acts that are positively viewed by society  
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Kin selection   show
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show • Involves helping another despite some immediate risk/cost • Become more likely to receive help in return ○ Found in chimpanzees  
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Indirect altruism   show
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show Degree of relatedness (close vs distant),Health (good vs poor),Situation (everyday life vs life and death) More help for close than distant kin Tendency to help those that were sick compared to the healthy, was reversed in life or death situation  
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show - Difficult to demonstrate causal relationships - We are more likely to help kin, doesn’t mean we don’t help others that are unrelated - Difficulty explaining helping a complete stranger  
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Empathy   show
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Rewards of helping Negative state relief model (Cialdini,1987)   show
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show Helping others in distress vs making us feel better doing so  
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Batson (1991) Whether or not people help depends on how they respond emotionally to the victims plight   show
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show happens only if people help when they're no longer troubled by seeing the victim Altruistic acts happen when people can easily not help  
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show • People help others to reduce feelings of distress, sadness or guilt • When we empathise, we get a sense of oneness with the victim • Cialdini argues that we help for selfish reasons (self-interest)  
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show found that - Empathetic p's helped more even when psychological escape was easy - Suggests an altruistic motive to reduce the victims suffering- rather than an egotistic motive  
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show Sent p's to a specific building to give a short talk; being a minister or a good Samaritan talk p's believed either early or late saw a man slouched in doorway The more the p's were running late, they were less inclined to help that man  
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show - People are less likely to help in an emergency when they are with others than when they are alone The greater the number, the less likely it is that anyone will help  
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show Asked students to fill in paperwork in a room Gradually, the room filled with smoke P's alerted the experimenter - 75% of time if they were alone - 38% of time if they were with strangers - 10% of time if they were with passive confederates  
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Barriers to overcome the bystander effect   show
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when do people help? - Mood   show
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show Dissatisfaction and resentment stemming from the belief that one is deprived of desired and deserved outcomes compared to some referent (eg. What similar others have) - leads to a less likelihood of helping behaviours  
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