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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 |
The ability to put oneself in the shoes of another person and to experience events and emotions (e.g., joy and sadness) 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-Group |
The group with which an individual identifies as a member |
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Out-Group |
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 finding that the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help |
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Pluralistic Ignorance |
The case in which people think that everyone else is interpreting a situation in a certain way, when in fact they are not |
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Diffusion of Responsibility |
The phenomenon wherein each bystander;s sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witnesses increases |
