Helping Flashcards
Prosocial behaviour:
immediate intention is to HELP or BENEFIT OTHERS
Altruism
Prosocial behavior motivated by desire to help others for its own sake, not for personal rewards
Egoism
Prosocial behavior motivated at least in part by desire for personal rewards
examples of decisions leading to helping
Is it needed? it it deserved? Who is in need? what is your relationship?
Darley and Latané
Decision tree of helping
Decision tree of helping
Darley and Latané:
- Noticing
- Defining it as emergency
- Assuming responsibility
- Making a decision on how to help
- Helping
Appropriate norms of helping
If other people help, then people perceive norm of helping • Personal norms of helping, often from parents or other role models • Legal approach to helping • Religious teachings of norms of helping
Inappropriate norms of helping
• Norm of family privacy
• Others’ failure to help
produces norm of not
helping
Theory explains helping: Evolutionary
kin selection
Theory explains helping: Affective
maintaining good mood
Theory explains helping: Decision theory
cost – benefit calculations
Cultural approach
ethical requirements and cultural norms of helping
Emotional rewards of Helping
•Happy people are more likely to help • Sad people help to escape from negative mood •Negative-state relief model of helping • But sad people are not always helpful
Personal rewards to helping
• Ability to help
Helping in-group
members:
- Similarity
- Interaction
- Communal relationship