What are the three motives for prosocial behavior?
-Selfish
-Social reward
-Want to relieve your personal distress
-Altruistic
-Empathy for the other people
What is the role of empathy on altruism?
-Understand what they are experiencing and want to help
What situational determinants increase/decrease helping?
-You cannot be busy
Good samaritan
-When there is a lot of people around
Diffusion of responsibility
-Ambiguous
If it is ambiguous people don’t know what to do
Pluralistic ignorance
Make it very clear for them to help you
What effect does a large crowd have on helping?
-When there are a lot of people, then they might not help
Diffusion of Responsibility
-when people who need to make a decision wait for someone else to act instead.
-The more people involved, the more likely it is that each person will do nothing, believing someone else from the group will probably respond.
Pluralistic Ignorance
-n an emergency, if no one else seems concerned or helps, you use that as information and assume everything is probably alright
Bystander Effect
-People are less likely to help when others are present
What is the effect of social class on helping?
- High ses
Donate more money
-Low ses
Donate more higher percentage of whatever they have
More generous
More interdependent
More willing to help
What is the effect of religion on helping?
- Most religions emphasize prosocial behavior try to motivate that by increasing empathic concern for other people
What is reciprocal altruism?
-The tendency to help others, expecting that they will help us some time in the future
What is the prisoner’s dilemma game?
-Cooperate
-Defect only works short term
Tit or tat
-a bargaining method in which a party initially cooperates with another party but thereafter imitates the other party’s behavior
Kin Selection
-Tendency for natural selection to favor behaviors that increase the chances of survival of genetic relatives
-People should be more likely to help those who share more genes
