module 8

Question 1

why do ppl help others

Answer 1

• kin selection
• reciprocal altruism
• cooperative group
• social rewards
• personal distress
• empathetic concern

Question 2

bystander apathy

Answer 2

• people think that because there are other people around, someone else will help
• diffusion of responsibility

Question 3

five stage model of bystander apathy

Answer 3

• notice situation
• interpret event as one requiring intervention
• assume responsibility
• decide how to help
• confidence in capacity to help

Question 4

how to reduce bystander apathy

Answer 4

• enlightenment
• recognize that helping/not helping is an asymmetric error

Question 5

prisoner’s dilemma

Answer 5

• choice to cooperate or not
• confess or keep quiet
• prisoners can sell out eachother or not and depending on the combo of who confesses the outcome may be good or bad
• best=reciprocity
• rooted in trusting others