From this article we can infer the affiliate assist …show more content…
a) How does the research question address the article?
The research question does address the article; clearly, each of the authors journal provide how, “theories of prosocial behavior among humans and non-humans social interactive behaviors has a greater emphasis placed on the role of social affiliation in motivating aid, particularly during everyday interpersonal contexts.”
b) Why was this research carried out?
The research was carried out in order to reveal, the methods and purpose for studies prediction and interpretation of the preference to assist sad and or happy targets social partners; seen as, “mood maintenance mechanisms,” although, theories of human altruism suggest that “helping results from an evolved tendency in care giving mammals to respond to distress or need with empathy and sympathy.”
4. Who were the participants and what type of procedure did they undergo?
The type of procedure that they underwent was a Hypothetical interaction Task.
The participants who underwent this test were Brosan& de Waal,2002; Seyfarth, 1977; Tobby & …show more content…
7. How did the article enhance your knowledge of the theoretical perspective?
We (humans) are more closed to animal attitudes that we could think. We follow certain codes of interpersonal conduct, which our closest ancestors of evolution such as the monkeys also do to interact with each other. To be more specific this study makes a comparison of both humans and primates, who are more likely to provide support to others for social affiliation reasons. In other words, humans decide to help those with better emotional display in order to have a greater possibility of empathy which is necessary for success in the group-life.
This article also make us to analyze why sometimes we feel that during a bad day everything goes wrong and the answer to that may be found paying attention to the attitude that we project to others, who seeing our little positive attitude simply decide to avoid us and escape from a uncomfortable