Social Psychology: People in Groups (ESSBP1010)
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Emotions and Arousal
,Theories of Emotions
B : Emotions feel subjectively different from another because we sense a different
physiological pattern with each emotion
C : You cannot easily distinguish the bodily changes associated with each emotion
D : In addition a person's judgement about why their body and physiology ,
is something
that emotion depends on
,Helping Behavior
, Why Do People Help?
Prosocial behaviour actions intended to benefit others
·kin Selection helping of genetic relatives
greater likelihood that
genes held in common will survive
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in high rick situations genetic relatedness became more important
,
· reciprocal altraism helping another and becoming more likely to
receive help in return
· helps B
A
B helps A
individuals who engage in this should survive and reproduce more
hence this behaviour will flourish
,
indirect reciprocity an individual who helps someone becomes more likely to
receive help from someone else
people are more likely to
help if the potential rewards 900d
⑲
seem high and costs low Mod
negative state relief Model the proposition that
people help others in order to counteract their own
⑧
feelings of sadness personal Prosocial
190istic Motivated by the desire to improve one's Own Welfare
altraistic Motivated by the desire to improve another's Welfare
YeS eMPAthiC Altruistic
CONCerD
Perception
that someone
needs help
nO personal 190istic
dis+VCSS
norm of social responsibility you have a duty to assist those in need
, When Do People Help?
the bystander effect the effect whereby the presence of Others
inhibits helPING
·PCOPIC in big Cities become USed tO HOiSe (H .
Might 92t Stimulus Overload
pluralistic ignorance the state in which people in a group mistakenly think
that their own individual thoughts feelings or behaviours are different from
, ,
those of the Others in the group
·
each by stander thinks that Other people aren't acting because somehow
they know there isn't an emergency
·
diffusion of responsibility the belief that others will or should take the
responsibility for assistance to a person in need
audience inhibition reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on
Observers
feeling a lack of competence in knowing how to help
exceptions of by stander effect :
groups in which members feel connected are more helpful than strangers
when it requires Multiple helpers the presence of others can sometimes lead
,
to more helping (so then the opposite is true)
2 9 When it is dangerous to attempt alone
. .
When people fear judgement if they don't help the presence of an audience
,
increases their helpful actions
diffusion of responsibility can be defeated by a person's role
When someone is a nurse or the leader of a group
people are more likely to help someone when they're in a good mood
but not less likely when they're in a bad mood
being aware of the
bystander effect makeS
you les) PrOne to it
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