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14 Cards in this Set
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Prosocial behavior |
Action intended to benefit another. |
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Pure (or true) altruism |
Action intended solely to benefit another. |
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Inclusive fitness |
The survival of one's genes in one's own offspring and in any relatives one helps. |
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Reciprocal aid |
Helping that occurs in return for prior help. |
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Social responsibility norm |
The societal rule that people should help those who need them to help. |
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Bystander effect |
The tendency of a bystander to be less likely to help in an emergency if there are other onlookers present. |
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Diffusion of responsobility |
The tendency for each group member to dilute personal responsibility for acting by spreading it among all other group members. |
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Pluralistic ignorance |
The mistaken impression on the part of group members that, because no one else is acting concerned,there is no cause for alarm. |
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Personal norms |
The internalized beleifs and values that combine to form a person's inner standards for behavior. |
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Arousal/cost-reward model |
The view that observers of a victim's suffering will want to help to relieve their own personal distress. |
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Mood management hypothesis |
The idea that people use helping tactically to manage their moods. |
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Perspective taking |
The process of mentally putting oneself in another's position. |
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Empathy-altruism hypothesis |
The presumption that when one empathesizes with the plight of another, one will want to help that other for purely altruistic reasons. |
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Empathic concern |
Compassionate feelings caused by taking the perspective of a needy other. |
