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13 Cards in this Set
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Prosocial Behavior |
any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person |
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Altruism |
the desire to help another person even if it involves a cost to the helper. |
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Kin Selection |
the idea that behaviors that help a genetic relative are favored by natural selection. |
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Norm Of Reciprocity |
the expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future. |
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Empathy |
putting ourselves in the shoes of another person and experiencing events and emotions the way that person experiences them. |
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Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis |
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. |
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Altruistic Personality |
the qualities that cause an individual to help others in a wide variety of situations. |
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In-Groups |
the group with which an individual identifies as a member. |
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Out-Groups |
any group with which an individual does not identify. |
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Urban Overload Hypothesis |
the theory that people living in cities are constantly bombarded with stimulation and that they keep to themselves to avoid being overwhelmed by it. |
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Bystander Effect |
the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any of them is to help. |
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Pluralistic Ignorance |
wherein people think that everyone else is interpreting a situation in a certain way, when in fact they're not. |
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Diffusion of Responsibility |
each bystander's sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witnesses increase. |
