This document discusses prosocial behavior and helping others from an evolutionary and psychological perspective. It covers several key points:
1) Prosocial behavior involves actions that help others with no immediate benefit to the helper. Evolutionary factors like kin selection and reciprocal altruism provide partial explanations for why individuals help.
2) Empathy, which involves understanding and sharing another's emotional experience, plays an important role in helping behaviors. Empathy has cognitive and emotional components and likely evolved to strengthen parent-child bonds and relationships.
3) Helping often provides psychological rewards to the helper like feeling good and pride. These rewards, along with social and moral norms, can motivate helping even without immediate tangible benefits. However, helping also
The document is a student paper about suicide prevention. It discusses how untreated depression is a leading cause of suicide and rates of suicide are increasing. It argues that raising awareness of depression and suicide in communities is key to prevention. The paper outlines signs of depression like self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse. It also discusses the importance of seeking help from therapists or suicide hotlines. Finally, it provides an example of the nonprofit To Write Love On Her Arms that raises funds for treatment and research related to depression.
This document summarizes research on the relationship between charitable giving and happiness. It finds that happier people tend to give more to charity. Experimental studies show that inducing positive mood increases helping behavior. Additionally, giving to charity itself seems to increase happiness. Brain imaging research shows giving activates reward centers in the brain. While correlations show volunteering is linked to higher well-being, experiments provide causal evidence that spending money on others increases happiness more than spending on oneself. However, advertising the self-interested benefits of giving to increase donations could undermine intrinsic motivations to give.
Critical Review of Research Evidence Part 3 FDRobert Cope
This document discusses trauma experienced by children in foster care and the potential for EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy to help address it. Children in foster care often experience trauma from being removed from their biological homes as well as potential abuse or neglect. They also face issues from multiple placements and aging out of the system unprepared. EMDR is presented as a promising 8-step therapy that could help youth resolve memories from traumatic experiences. The document examines the scope of problems faced by the foster care population and why addressing trauma is important to help youth as they transition into adulthood.
The document summarizes research on the bystander effect. It discusses how an individual is less likely to help a victim when others are present compared to when they are the only witness. This is due to diffusion of responsibility, where people assume someone else will take action, and social influence, where people look to others' reactions to determine if a situation is an emergency. The bystander effect was first studied after the Kitty Genovese murder case, where 38 witnesses failed to help.
This document provides a literature review on mother-child bonding. It discusses several theories on bonding, including attachment theory proposed by Bowlby, and separation-individuation theory proposed by Mahler. It explores bonding from both an evolutionary perspective and a psychological perspective. The review also examines intrauterine bonding and communication between mother and child, and how recent research in areas like psychoneuroimmunology has furthered understanding of this bond. Finally, it introduces concepts of social constructionism and how cultural assumptions shape definitions of motherhood.
1. The author participated in an online internship as a listener providing emotional support through conversations on the website 7CupsOfTea. They completed various training courses in counseling skills like active listening.
2. Research on the availability and affordability of mental health services in the US and globally found vast differences in access to quality care. Recommendations included improving access through primary care, community services, education, and increasing the mental health workforce.
3. Statistics show many guests on 7CupsOfTea seek support for school and work stress, and articles discuss the challenges women face balancing multiple responsibilities of work, family, and relationships. The author is awaiting a decision for a summer internship working with children
This document provides an overview of the Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR) intervention. SFCR is a 15-week group intervention designed to help families exposed to trauma build stability, support, and coping skills through developing routines, rituals and traditions. The intervention aims to increase families' protective functions and reduce trauma symptoms. Key aspects of SFCR include skill-building for individual families, community building among participant families, and separate activities for different family members based on their roles and ages. SFCR has shown promise as an approach that treats whole families affected by complex trauma.
The document is a student paper about suicide prevention. It discusses how untreated depression is a leading cause of suicide and rates of suicide are increasing. It argues that raising awareness of depression and suicide in communities is key to prevention. The paper outlines signs of depression like self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse. It also discusses the importance of seeking help from therapists or suicide hotlines. Finally, it provides an example of the nonprofit To Write Love On Her Arms that raises funds for treatment and research related to depression.
This document summarizes research on the relationship between charitable giving and happiness. It finds that happier people tend to give more to charity. Experimental studies show that inducing positive mood increases helping behavior. Additionally, giving to charity itself seems to increase happiness. Brain imaging research shows giving activates reward centers in the brain. While correlations show volunteering is linked to higher well-being, experiments provide causal evidence that spending money on others increases happiness more than spending on oneself. However, advertising the self-interested benefits of giving to increase donations could undermine intrinsic motivations to give.
Critical Review of Research Evidence Part 3 FDRobert Cope
This document discusses trauma experienced by children in foster care and the potential for EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy to help address it. Children in foster care often experience trauma from being removed from their biological homes as well as potential abuse or neglect. They also face issues from multiple placements and aging out of the system unprepared. EMDR is presented as a promising 8-step therapy that could help youth resolve memories from traumatic experiences. The document examines the scope of problems faced by the foster care population and why addressing trauma is important to help youth as they transition into adulthood.
The document summarizes research on the bystander effect. It discusses how an individual is less likely to help a victim when others are present compared to when they are the only witness. This is due to diffusion of responsibility, where people assume someone else will take action, and social influence, where people look to others' reactions to determine if a situation is an emergency. The bystander effect was first studied after the Kitty Genovese murder case, where 38 witnesses failed to help.
This document provides a literature review on mother-child bonding. It discusses several theories on bonding, including attachment theory proposed by Bowlby, and separation-individuation theory proposed by Mahler. It explores bonding from both an evolutionary perspective and a psychological perspective. The review also examines intrauterine bonding and communication between mother and child, and how recent research in areas like psychoneuroimmunology has furthered understanding of this bond. Finally, it introduces concepts of social constructionism and how cultural assumptions shape definitions of motherhood.
1. The author participated in an online internship as a listener providing emotional support through conversations on the website 7CupsOfTea. They completed various training courses in counseling skills like active listening.
2. Research on the availability and affordability of mental health services in the US and globally found vast differences in access to quality care. Recommendations included improving access through primary care, community services, education, and increasing the mental health workforce.
3. Statistics show many guests on 7CupsOfTea seek support for school and work stress, and articles discuss the challenges women face balancing multiple responsibilities of work, family, and relationships. The author is awaiting a decision for a summer internship working with children
This document provides an overview of the Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR) intervention. SFCR is a 15-week group intervention designed to help families exposed to trauma build stability, support, and coping skills through developing routines, rituals and traditions. The intervention aims to increase families' protective functions and reduce trauma symptoms. Key aspects of SFCR include skill-building for individual families, community building among participant families, and separate activities for different family members based on their roles and ages. SFCR has shown promise as an approach that treats whole families affected by complex trauma.
1) Mayeroff proposed distinguishing between caring for a person versus an idea, as there is a difference in balance between personal action/intellectual and emotional attachment.
2) For Mayeroff, caring involves commitment to another's growth and potential as well as the carer's knowledge, values, and traits like patience and sensitivity.
3) An ethics of care focuses on whole persons and relationships rather than rules, entailing ongoing responsiveness to each person's emotions and uniqueness.
This document discusses how trauma experienced by individuals can be transmitted across generations and negatively impact entire communities. It defines trauma and explores theories of its transgenerational transfer. Experiencing or being exposed to unresolved trauma is linked to increased rates of family violence, substance abuse, mental health issues, and criminal behavior in subsequent generations. Government policies are also discussed as exacerbating trauma and community dysfunction in Indigenous communities in Australia. The transmission of historical trauma through cultural and family systems helps explain the phenomenon of "dysfunctional community syndrome" seen in some Indigenous communities with high levels of compounded, unresolved trauma.
Reasonable responses to unreasonable behaviour?: medical and sociological perspectives on the aftermaths of sexual violence - Liz Kelly, CWASU, London Metropolitan University
Trauma And Post Traumatic Stress For 2009 National ConferenceMedicalWhistleblower
1) Trauma can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation and is characterized by re-experiencing the trauma through intrusive memories and nightmares, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, and increased arousal and anxiety.
2) PTSD impacts individuals by causing difficulty trusting others, fear, anger, guilt, and problems with relationships, concentration, and sleep. It can also increase risk of medical illness due to effects on the immune system and stress response.
3) Treatment and support of trauma survivors should focus on fostering safety, trust, choice, strength, healing, and empowerment to overcome feelings of vulnerability and promote
Community psychology emerged as an approach to address shortcomings in traditional individual therapy models. It focuses on prevention rather than treatment of existing problems through understanding how individuals and environments interact over time to influence behavior. Community psychology is practiced in real-world settings by assessing community needs and risks to design prevention-focused interventions often through self-help programs. Its emergence was catalyzed by concerns about overreliance on mental hospitals and a desire for community-based solutions to psychological distress.
This document discusses shame and its relationship to various psychological conditions. It begins by defining shame and differentiating it from guilt. It describes how shame is associated with secondary emotions and involves self-evaluation. The document then examines how shame relates to specific conditions like schizophrenia, psychosis, dissociative identity disorder, and interpersonal relationships. Key findings include that shame is elevated in individuals with DID compared to other groups, and that shame in family members can increase criticism towards a loved one with schizophrenia. Shame is also linked to social anxiety and perceptions of stigmatization in psychosis.
"The Nature of Suicide Bereavement" is excerpted and adapted from "Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: U.S. National Guidelines" (2015), by the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force (http://bit.ly/sosl-taskforce) of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. The original document is available free for download at http://bit.ly/respondingsuicide.
The Grief After Suicide blog post related to this essay is at http://bit.ly/griefunique.
Pre-commitment Strategies in Behavioral EconomicsRussell James
This document discusses pre-commitment strategies in behavioral economics. It describes how pre-commitment allows decisions to be made in a calm, deliberative state to avoid impulsive choices driven by emotions and a focus on immediate gratification. Specifically, it discusses how pre-commitment can change rewards and penalties by altering social influences, immediate payoffs, and perceptions of loss. Changing these factors can guide behavior by appealing to both rational and emotional decision-making. The document will next cover changing the number of decision points as another pre-commitment strategy.
This study examined the relationships between self-monitoring styles, empathy, and self-sacrificing behavior in 50 undergraduate students. Participants completed measures of self-monitoring style, social desirability, and emotional empathy. High self-monitors were predicted to engage in more self-sacrificing behaviors in public than low self-monitors due to their greater desire to be liked. Results showed high self-monitors help more to be liked, while low self-monitors have higher empathy scores. Self-monitoring style influences motivations for prosocial behaviors like helping.
This document discusses suicide counselling approaches. It notes that the common purpose, goal, stimulus, stressor, emotion, cognitive state, perceptual state, action, and consistency in suicide can help counselors understand suicide victims' mindsets. Effective counselling requires understanding the victim's perspective and possibilities to build hope. In India, suicide is often related to socioeconomic, interpersonal and cultural issues, requiring multi-factorial counselling. Counselors must understand their own weaknesses to prevent harm, build rapport, assess risks, provide immediate intervention to prevent suicide, and continue support through crisis management and aftercare.
This document discusses research on the prevalence of elder abuse and neglect. It finds that elder abuse is underreported, with only 1 in 14 cases reported to authorities. Research estimates that between 0.2-9% of community-dwelling elders experience emotional, physical, or financial abuse. Low social support is the strongest risk factor for abuse. While caregivers sometimes unintentionally abuse elders, many witnesses do not report abuse due to lack of training in identifying and handling elder mistreatment. The document calls for greater education of professionals and the public to improve abuse detection and response.
This issue of O BEHAVE! provides summaries of recent behavioral science research on various topics:
1) A study found that spending money in ways that match one's personality was linked to higher happiness levels than total income.
2) Research on the hindsight bias and how it can prevent learning from mistakes is discussed.
3) Studies show that attributing success more to external factors like luck increases generosity, while internal attributes decrease support for redistributive policies.
4) Research demonstrated that hospital patients recovering from surgery had better outcomes if they had a view of trees rather than a brick wall from their window.
5) A study found that simply repeating key points in a discussion could change people
Caring for a family member with dementia is fraught with burden and stress: A...GERATEC
Caring for a family member with dementia is complex, with outcomes depending on numerous factors. The experience differs based on the caregiver's relationship to the care recipient, as well as cultural and social contexts. While research often focuses on the burden and stress of caregiving, care can also have positive aspects. Motivations for providing care influence both the caregiver and care recipient's well-being. Informal caregiving is especially challenging in South Africa due to poverty, lack of infrastructure and services, and changing cultural attitudes towards elders. The experiences of both caregivers and those with dementia would benefit from more nuanced understanding of their diverse contexts and perspectives.
“I Had No Idea”: The Silencing of Food Insecurity and the Role of Undergradua...Iowa Campus Compact
Primarily focused on undergraduate
education, this session seeks to elicit new
ways to help our students understand and redress public silence and quiescence
around the issue of food insecurity.
Garry Leonard Running IV
Department of Geography
and Anthropology
UW-Eau Claire
Ruth Cronje
English and Honors
UW-Eau Claire
Mike Huggins
Eau Claire Clear Vision
UW-Eau Claire Honors
Caring for a vulnerable person should be a noble calling, inspired by love and affection for the individual and sustained by the support of a caring community. The reality of life as a Carer for most people in South Africa cannot be further removed from this ideal.
1. The diagnosis and understanding of PTSD has evolved over the past century from its early conceptualization as hysteria, to recognition as a disorder following wartime trauma and later civilian trauma.
2. Lifetime exposure to traumatic events is common, with over 60% of men and over 50% of women experiencing a traumatic event, and lifetime prevalence of PTSD at around 7.8%.
3. Understanding of PTSD has expanded from a focus on male veterans to incorporate women's experiences of domestic and sexual violence and their effects.
4. Rates of mental health diagnoses including PTSD are high in recent veterans, but perceived barriers prevent many from seeking help, with efforts underway to reduce stigma and improve care.
Guest lecture within the field of consumer behaviour prepared for the University of Antwerp (applied economics). I explore theories from (social) psychology to demonstrate our essential social nature. In the second part, these lessons are applied for a better new product development and communication.
Counselling after a suicide attempt can be difficult for both the person who attempted suicide and their loved ones. Common feelings among loved ones include anger, shame, guilt, fear, avoidance and minimization. Unhelpful reactions include panicking, name-calling, criticizing, preaching, ignoring, abandoning, punishing, dramatizing or simplifying the situation. It's important to create a safe space, listen without judgment, understand the person's feelings, help remove means of suicide, support developing solutions, and encourage professional help. Making a survivor kit, hope cards and dialectical behavioral therapy can help address suicidal thoughts.
This document discusses the philosophy and practice of clinical outpatient therapy. It begins with a disclaimer stating the purpose is to improve therapy practice through a deeper understanding of methods, not replace expectations of one's agency. It then provides background on the author's training and apprenticeships with notable clinicians over 12 years, and a subsequent innovative practicum with live supervision employing solution-focused, team therapy. The document goes on to discuss perspectives on the origin of psychological symptoms, including from biomedical conditions, trauma/injury, and power struggles in relationships. It emphasizes symptoms acquire purpose, meaning and power in organizing social interaction and communication within relationships.
This chapter discusses theories and research on helping behavior and prosocial behavior. It defines key concepts like altruism and prosocial behavior. It outlines four main theoretical perspectives on helping: evolutionary, sociocultural, learning, and decision-making perspectives. It also discusses who helps including the influence of mood, empathy, personality, gender, and environmental factors. Finally, it covers bystander intervention, volunteerism, caregiving, and perspectives on receiving help.
1) Mayeroff proposed distinguishing between caring for a person versus an idea, as there is a difference in balance between personal action/intellectual and emotional attachment.
2) For Mayeroff, caring involves commitment to another's growth and potential as well as the carer's knowledge, values, and traits like patience and sensitivity.
3) An ethics of care focuses on whole persons and relationships rather than rules, entailing ongoing responsiveness to each person's emotions and uniqueness.
This document discusses how trauma experienced by individuals can be transmitted across generations and negatively impact entire communities. It defines trauma and explores theories of its transgenerational transfer. Experiencing or being exposed to unresolved trauma is linked to increased rates of family violence, substance abuse, mental health issues, and criminal behavior in subsequent generations. Government policies are also discussed as exacerbating trauma and community dysfunction in Indigenous communities in Australia. The transmission of historical trauma through cultural and family systems helps explain the phenomenon of "dysfunctional community syndrome" seen in some Indigenous communities with high levels of compounded, unresolved trauma.
Reasonable responses to unreasonable behaviour?: medical and sociological perspectives on the aftermaths of sexual violence - Liz Kelly, CWASU, London Metropolitan University
Trauma And Post Traumatic Stress For 2009 National ConferenceMedicalWhistleblower
1) Trauma can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation and is characterized by re-experiencing the trauma through intrusive memories and nightmares, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, and increased arousal and anxiety.
2) PTSD impacts individuals by causing difficulty trusting others, fear, anger, guilt, and problems with relationships, concentration, and sleep. It can also increase risk of medical illness due to effects on the immune system and stress response.
3) Treatment and support of trauma survivors should focus on fostering safety, trust, choice, strength, healing, and empowerment to overcome feelings of vulnerability and promote
Community psychology emerged as an approach to address shortcomings in traditional individual therapy models. It focuses on prevention rather than treatment of existing problems through understanding how individuals and environments interact over time to influence behavior. Community psychology is practiced in real-world settings by assessing community needs and risks to design prevention-focused interventions often through self-help programs. Its emergence was catalyzed by concerns about overreliance on mental hospitals and a desire for community-based solutions to psychological distress.
This document discusses shame and its relationship to various psychological conditions. It begins by defining shame and differentiating it from guilt. It describes how shame is associated with secondary emotions and involves self-evaluation. The document then examines how shame relates to specific conditions like schizophrenia, psychosis, dissociative identity disorder, and interpersonal relationships. Key findings include that shame is elevated in individuals with DID compared to other groups, and that shame in family members can increase criticism towards a loved one with schizophrenia. Shame is also linked to social anxiety and perceptions of stigmatization in psychosis.
"The Nature of Suicide Bereavement" is excerpted and adapted from "Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: U.S. National Guidelines" (2015), by the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force (http://bit.ly/sosl-taskforce) of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. The original document is available free for download at http://bit.ly/respondingsuicide.
The Grief After Suicide blog post related to this essay is at http://bit.ly/griefunique.
Pre-commitment Strategies in Behavioral EconomicsRussell James
This document discusses pre-commitment strategies in behavioral economics. It describes how pre-commitment allows decisions to be made in a calm, deliberative state to avoid impulsive choices driven by emotions and a focus on immediate gratification. Specifically, it discusses how pre-commitment can change rewards and penalties by altering social influences, immediate payoffs, and perceptions of loss. Changing these factors can guide behavior by appealing to both rational and emotional decision-making. The document will next cover changing the number of decision points as another pre-commitment strategy.
This study examined the relationships between self-monitoring styles, empathy, and self-sacrificing behavior in 50 undergraduate students. Participants completed measures of self-monitoring style, social desirability, and emotional empathy. High self-monitors were predicted to engage in more self-sacrificing behaviors in public than low self-monitors due to their greater desire to be liked. Results showed high self-monitors help more to be liked, while low self-monitors have higher empathy scores. Self-monitoring style influences motivations for prosocial behaviors like helping.
This document discusses suicide counselling approaches. It notes that the common purpose, goal, stimulus, stressor, emotion, cognitive state, perceptual state, action, and consistency in suicide can help counselors understand suicide victims' mindsets. Effective counselling requires understanding the victim's perspective and possibilities to build hope. In India, suicide is often related to socioeconomic, interpersonal and cultural issues, requiring multi-factorial counselling. Counselors must understand their own weaknesses to prevent harm, build rapport, assess risks, provide immediate intervention to prevent suicide, and continue support through crisis management and aftercare.
This document discusses research on the prevalence of elder abuse and neglect. It finds that elder abuse is underreported, with only 1 in 14 cases reported to authorities. Research estimates that between 0.2-9% of community-dwelling elders experience emotional, physical, or financial abuse. Low social support is the strongest risk factor for abuse. While caregivers sometimes unintentionally abuse elders, many witnesses do not report abuse due to lack of training in identifying and handling elder mistreatment. The document calls for greater education of professionals and the public to improve abuse detection and response.
This issue of O BEHAVE! provides summaries of recent behavioral science research on various topics:
1) A study found that spending money in ways that match one's personality was linked to higher happiness levels than total income.
2) Research on the hindsight bias and how it can prevent learning from mistakes is discussed.
3) Studies show that attributing success more to external factors like luck increases generosity, while internal attributes decrease support for redistributive policies.
4) Research demonstrated that hospital patients recovering from surgery had better outcomes if they had a view of trees rather than a brick wall from their window.
5) A study found that simply repeating key points in a discussion could change people
Caring for a family member with dementia is fraught with burden and stress: A...GERATEC
Caring for a family member with dementia is complex, with outcomes depending on numerous factors. The experience differs based on the caregiver's relationship to the care recipient, as well as cultural and social contexts. While research often focuses on the burden and stress of caregiving, care can also have positive aspects. Motivations for providing care influence both the caregiver and care recipient's well-being. Informal caregiving is especially challenging in South Africa due to poverty, lack of infrastructure and services, and changing cultural attitudes towards elders. The experiences of both caregivers and those with dementia would benefit from more nuanced understanding of their diverse contexts and perspectives.
“I Had No Idea”: The Silencing of Food Insecurity and the Role of Undergradua...Iowa Campus Compact
Primarily focused on undergraduate
education, this session seeks to elicit new
ways to help our students understand and redress public silence and quiescence
around the issue of food insecurity.
Garry Leonard Running IV
Department of Geography
and Anthropology
UW-Eau Claire
Ruth Cronje
English and Honors
UW-Eau Claire
Mike Huggins
Eau Claire Clear Vision
UW-Eau Claire Honors
Caring for a vulnerable person should be a noble calling, inspired by love and affection for the individual and sustained by the support of a caring community. The reality of life as a Carer for most people in South Africa cannot be further removed from this ideal.
1. The diagnosis and understanding of PTSD has evolved over the past century from its early conceptualization as hysteria, to recognition as a disorder following wartime trauma and later civilian trauma.
2. Lifetime exposure to traumatic events is common, with over 60% of men and over 50% of women experiencing a traumatic event, and lifetime prevalence of PTSD at around 7.8%.
3. Understanding of PTSD has expanded from a focus on male veterans to incorporate women's experiences of domestic and sexual violence and their effects.
4. Rates of mental health diagnoses including PTSD are high in recent veterans, but perceived barriers prevent many from seeking help, with efforts underway to reduce stigma and improve care.
Guest lecture within the field of consumer behaviour prepared for the University of Antwerp (applied economics). I explore theories from (social) psychology to demonstrate our essential social nature. In the second part, these lessons are applied for a better new product development and communication.
Counselling after a suicide attempt can be difficult for both the person who attempted suicide and their loved ones. Common feelings among loved ones include anger, shame, guilt, fear, avoidance and minimization. Unhelpful reactions include panicking, name-calling, criticizing, preaching, ignoring, abandoning, punishing, dramatizing or simplifying the situation. It's important to create a safe space, listen without judgment, understand the person's feelings, help remove means of suicide, support developing solutions, and encourage professional help. Making a survivor kit, hope cards and dialectical behavioral therapy can help address suicidal thoughts.
This document discusses the philosophy and practice of clinical outpatient therapy. It begins with a disclaimer stating the purpose is to improve therapy practice through a deeper understanding of methods, not replace expectations of one's agency. It then provides background on the author's training and apprenticeships with notable clinicians over 12 years, and a subsequent innovative practicum with live supervision employing solution-focused, team therapy. The document goes on to discuss perspectives on the origin of psychological symptoms, including from biomedical conditions, trauma/injury, and power struggles in relationships. It emphasizes symptoms acquire purpose, meaning and power in organizing social interaction and communication within relationships.
This chapter discusses theories and research on helping behavior and prosocial behavior. It defines key concepts like altruism and prosocial behavior. It outlines four main theoretical perspectives on helping: evolutionary, sociocultural, learning, and decision-making perspectives. It also discusses who helps including the influence of mood, empathy, personality, gender, and environmental factors. Finally, it covers bystander intervention, volunteerism, caregiving, and perspectives on receiving help.
The document discusses several studies that examine cultural differences in prosocial behavior:
- Whiting (1975) found that children in Kenya were the most prosocial, while those in Japan and India were the least, and that household responsibilities predicted higher prosocial behavior.
- Levine et al (2003) observed helping behaviors across 23 countries and found that places like Brazil and Denmark ranked higher than the US, suggesting cultures emphasizing social responsibility over achievement help more.
- Korte & Ayvalioglu (1981) found that small communities and squatter settlements in Turkey helped strangers more than large cities or suburbs, indicating community size impacts prosocial norms.
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The document discusses theories of altruism and helping behavior. It covers:
1) Social exchange theory which views helping as transactions that aim to maximize rewards and minimize costs. Internal rewards like positive emotions and reducing guilt also motivate helping.
2) Social norms like reciprocity and social responsibility influence helping. Reciprocity means helping those who help you, while social responsibility means helping those in need regardless of rewards.
3) Evolutionary theories suggest helping family (kin selection) and one's group (group selection) enhances gene survival. Indirect reciprocity means helping to establish a good reputation.
4) Genuine altruism refers to truly selfless helping with no expectation of rewards.
PSY 3140, Social Psychology 1 Course Learning Outco.docxgertrudebellgrove
PSY 3140, Social Psychology 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VI
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
3. Explain how social psychologists study human behavior.
3.1 Compare motivations underlying helping behaviors versus aggressive behaviors.
5. Analyze the conclusions of empirical research in social psychology.
5.1 Identify the circumstances and motivations that influence helping behaviors.
7. Examine how our own biases influence perceptions of various behaviors.
7.1 Describe how behaviors can be perceived as requiring help.
7.2 Discuss the application of the bystander effect to a social situation.
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Learning Activity
3.1
Unit Lesson
Chapter 10, pp. 303–312, 315–318, and 320–326
Chapter 11, pp. 333–339, 342–347, and 351–361
Unit VI Scholarly Activity
5.1
Unit Lesson
Chapter 10, pp. 303–312, 315–318, and 320–326
Unit VI Scholarly Activity
7.1
Unit Lesson
Chapter 10, pp. 303–312, 315–318, and 320–326
Unit VI Scholarly Activity
7.2
Unit Lesson
Chapter 10, pp. 303–312, 315–318, and 320–326
Unit VI Scholarly Activity
Reading Assignment
Chapter 10: Helping and Prosocial Behavior, pp. 303–312, 315–318, and 320–326
Chapter 11: Aggression, pp. 333–339, 342–347, and 351–361
Unit Lesson
Helping and Prosocial Behavior
Prosocial behavior is any act done with the intention of benefiting another person or group (Heinzen &
Goodfriend, 2019). Altruism is the desire to help another person out of selfless concern for his or her well-
being. Researchers who study prosocial behavior and altruism examine whether people are born with these
behaviors or learn them. They are also interested in why people help others, even if it does not benefit them.
What do you think the difference is between prosocial behavior and altruism? Can you determine how
prosocial behavior and altruism are connected?
One explanation as to why people might help others is based on evolutionary psychology. Explaining altruistic
behavior is problematic for the theory of evolution because sometimes people act altruistically, even if it might
decrease the chance of passing their genes on to the next generation. Some people have died while helping
others, but they often do so in order to benefit their family groups more broadly. This, in turn, can ensure that
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certain familial genetic pools are passed on through reproduction. Could this potentially mean that people
help even if it means they will not get something in return?
Why do you help others? Is it because you expect to be helped in the future? Recall from Chapter 7 that the
norm of reciprocity suggests that we do things to help others with the expectation of an increased likelihood
for them to help us in the future (Heinzen & Goodfriend, 2019). According to this norm, sociobiologi ...
This document summarizes research on prosocial behavior and factors that influence helping others. It discusses key concepts like altruism, heroism, bystander effect, and diffusion of responsibility. Several studies are described that explore how the number of bystanders, mood, personality traits like empathy, and situational factors can impact whether someone helps in an emergency situation. The document also examines motivations for prosocial acts and long-term volunteering commitments from perspectives of empathy, self-interest, genetic determinism, and other theories.
ALTRUISM AND HELPING OTHER SENSATION.pptxHaniJaleel
This ppt provides a brief search about altruism and helping other sensations in psychology. This document can help undergraduate students to improve their academic results.
The document discusses theories about why and when people help others and how to increase helping behaviors. It covers:
1) Reasons for helping including social exchange of rewards, social norms of reciprocity and responsibility, and evolutionary psychology of kin selection and reciprocity.
2) Factors influencing when helping occurs, such as the bystander effect where more bystanders means less helping, and time pressures reducing assistance.
3) Individual differences in helping, with personality traits like empathy and efficacy predicting more assistance, and religious faith enabling long-term altruism.
4) Ways to boost helping by reducing ambiguity, using persuasion techniques to increase responsibility or guilt, and teaching altruism directly.
Prosocial behavior refers to voluntary actions that benefit others or society, such as helping, sharing, and cooperating. It is central to healthy social groups and is motivated by empathy. Research on prosocial behavior originated with studies on bystander effects during crimes and emergencies. Current research examines biological, motivational, cognitive, and social factors influencing prosocial acts through theories like empathy-altruism, negative state relief, kin selection, and reciprocal altruism. Volunteering has been associated with benefits to happiness and health.
This document discusses prosocial behavior, which is defined as acts that benefit others. It explores various motivations for helping behavior, including egoistic motives aimed at increasing one's own welfare and altruistic motives aimed at helping others. Some key points discussed include evolutionary reasons for helping relatives due to kin selection, the empathy-altruism hypothesis which links seeing others in distress to a desire to help, and situational factors like the bystander effect that influence whether people help strangers. The role of media and celebrity endorsements in drawing attention and donations to causes like disaster relief is also examined.
Prosocial behavior, or intent to benefit others, is a social behavior that "benefit other people or society as a whole","such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering". Obeying the rules and conforming to socially accepted behaviors (such as stopping at a "Stop" sign or paying for groceries) are also regarded as prosocial behaviors. These actions may be motivated by empathy and by concern about the welfare and rights of others, as well as for egoistic or practical concerns, such as one's social status or reputation, hope for direct or indirect reciprocity, or adherence to one's perceived system of fairness. It may also be motivated by altruism, though the existence of pure altruism is somewhat disputed, and some have argued that this falls into philosophical rather than psychological realm of debate. Evidence suggests that pro sociality is central to the well-being of social groups across a range of scales, including schools. Prosocial behavior in the classroom can have a significant impact on a student's motivation for learning and contributions to the classroom and larger community. In the workplace, prosocial behaviour can have a significant impact on team psychological safety, as well as positive indirect effects on employee's helping behaviors and task performance. Empathy is a strong motive in eliciting prosocial behavior, and has deep evolutionary roots.
Prosocial behavior fosters positive traits that are beneficial for children and society. It helps many beneficial functions by bettering production of any league and its organizational scale. Evolutionary psychologists use theories such as kin-selection theory and inclusive fitness as an explanation for why prosocial behavioral tendencies are passed down generationally, according to the evolutionary fitness displayed by those who engaged in prosocial acts. Encouraging prosocial behavior may also require decreasing or eliminating undesirable social behaviors.
Although the term "prosocial behavior" is often associated with developing desirable traits in children, the literature on the topic has grown since the late 1980s to include adult behaviors as well. The term "prosocial" has grown into a world-wide movement, using evolutionary science to create real-world pro-social changes from working groups to our whole culture.
- Altruism is defined as helping another person without expecting personal reward or benefit in return. It involves promoting the welfare of others at a potential risk or cost to oneself.
- Some psychologists believe altruism stems from evolutionary factors like survival of the kin and group selection, while others argue true altruism may not exist if even intrinsic rewards are considered a personal benefit.
- Debates exist around whether altruistic acts can ever be truly selfless or if people are always motivated in some way to help themselves.
A large no of people volunteer their time to help other people each year as seen in Ram Krishna Mission.
What is it that moves a person to give up their time, money, and even safety to relieve another person's suffering?
Compassion is the key.
Human suffering is inevitable, but our ability to understand and sympathize with the plight and circumstances of other people can play a major role in whether we take action to relieve this suffering.
Compassion is also a highly valued quality.
Religions stress the importance of compassion, while people often list characteristics such as "kind" and "compassionate" as what they look for in a potential partner.
Introduction
Types of prosocial behaviour
Proactive
Reactive
Altruistic
Examples
Factors affecting proactive behaviour
External factors
Situational factors
Internal factors
Why do people fail to help in emergency
Bystander effect
This document provides an overview of a social psychology course on prosocial behavior taught by James Neill. It discusses key concepts like prosocial behavior versus altruism, reasons why people help such as self-interest, social norms, and evolution. Experimental research on obedience, conformity, cooperation, forgiveness, and empathy is summarized. Determinants of helping like personality, competence, attributions, and personal norms are also covered. The document poses questions about human nature, increasing helping behavior, and factors that influence helping a stranger in need.
What is it that moves a person to give up their time, money, and even safety to relieve another person's suffering? Compassion is the key. Human suffering is inevitable, but our ability to understand and sympathize with the plight and circumstances of other people can play a major role in whether we take action to relieve this suffering. Compassion is also a highly valued quality. Religions stress the importance of compassion, while people often list characteristics such as "kind" and "compassionate" as what they look for in a potential partner.
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3. Evolutionary Factors in Helping
The “Selfish Gene”
• emphasize the survival of the individuals’ genes not survival of
fittest
• KIN SELECTION :
• Tendency of an individual to help genetic relatives
• In fact, kin selection is evident in the behavior of many
organisms.
4. • Reciprocal Altruism Kin selection provides only a partial
explanation for helping.
• Relatives are not always helpful to each other. And even though
relatives may get preferential treatment, most people help out
non-kin as well.
• Through reciprocal altruism, helping someone else can be in
your best interests because it increases the likelihood that you
will be helped in return
5. • Robert Trivers (1971) cited several examples of reciprocal altruism
in animals.
• In some human environments, reciprocal altruism is essential for
survival even today.
6. The Evolution of Empathy
critically important role that empathy plays in helping.
Most researchers regard empathy as having both a cognitive component of
understanding the emotional experience of another individual and an
emotional experience that is consistent with what the other is feeling
A major cognitive component of empathy is perspective taking: using the
power of imagination to try to see the world through someone else’s eyes.
A key emotional component of empathy is empathic concern, which
involves other oriented feelings, such as sympathy, compassion, and
tenderness.
7. Although higher-order cognitive aspects of empathy are specific to humans,
other animals show evidence of empathy in a variety of ways.
Paul MacLean (1985) proposed that empathy emerged with the evolutionary
transition from reptiles to mammals.
An important characteristic of mammals related to empathy is how much
the young must be nurtured by the mother or parents.
Caregivers must understand the emotional communications from their
young and respond to its emotional needs.
Many scholars propose that once the capacity for empathy was established,
it evolved beyond the parent–child relationship
Very young human infants show signs of being affected by the distress of
others and, by their first birthday, begin to comfort victims of distress
8. Two additional details are worth noting about the study. First, the
experimenter never requested help from the infants, nor did he praise or
reward the infants when they did help.
Second, for every task he needed help with, the experimenter created a
similar situation in which he did not seem to have a problem.
The researchers also tested three young chimpanzees using a similar
procedure.
The chimpanzees also helped the human experimenter when they saw that
he appeared to need help reaching his goal, although not across as many
tasks or as reliably as the human infants did.
9. Neuroscience research supports the idea that the capacity for empathy is
part of our biology. A recent meta-analysis reported a strong body of
evidence indicating that empathy for other’s pain activates neural structures
involved in the direct experience of pain.
In addition, the hormone oxytocin—which is well known as being involved in
mother–infant attachment as well as in bonding between mating pairs—is
implicated in empathy and prosocial behaviors.
In fact, humans given a boost of oxytocin (through a nasal spray) in
experiments behaved in more cooperative and trusting ways than did
participants given a placebo
10. Rewards of Helping: Helping Others to Help Oneself
Whether or not it can be traced to evolutionary and biological factors, one
important reason why people help others is because it often is rewarding,
even if the rewards are psychological rather than material.
We all like the idea of being the hero, lifted onto the shoulders of our
peers for coming to the rescue of someone in distress.
Helping helps the helper.
The potential rewards of helping, however, can be offset with significant
costs.
11. Indeed, people often seem to conduct a cost–benefit analysis not only when
making deliberate decisions to behave prosocially, as when donating blood,
but also in more impulsive, sudden decisions to intervene in an emergency.
The empirical evidence on this point is clear: People are much more likely to
help when the potential rewards of helping seem high relative to the potential
costs.
Arousal: cost–reward model: The proposition that people react to emergency
situations by acting in the most cost-effective way to reduce the arousal of
shock and alarm.
12. The arousal: cost–reward model of helping stipulates that both emotional
and cognitive factors determine whether bystanders to an emergency will
intervene.
Emotionally, bystanders experience the shock and alarm of personal distress;
this unpleasant state of arousal motivates them to do something to reduce it.
What they do, however, depends on the “bystander calculus,” their
computation of the costs and rewards associated with helping.
When potential rewards (to self and victim) outweigh potential costs (to self
and victim), bystanders will help.
But raise those costs and lower those rewards and it is likely that the victims
will not be helped.
13. Feeling Good
Helping often simply feels good.
A growing body of research reveals a strong relationship between giving
help and feeling better, including improvements in mental and physical
health
Heidi Wayment (2004), for example, found that women who engaged in
helping behaviors in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks in the United States showed greater reduction in their distress over
time than women who did not do so.
More recently, a longitudinal study by Jane Piliavin and Erica Siegl (2008)
found that doing volunteer work was associated with improvements in
psychological well-being and that volunteering for multiple organizations was
associated with greater improvement.
14. • Even when the costs of helping are high enough that it doesn’t feel good
immediately, it can pay off in the long run.
• When parents reluctantly sacrifice relaxing with a good book or movie at the
end of a hard day in order to help their child finish some homework, they might
not feel immediate joy from giving help, but in the long run, they can expect to
reap the benefits of their behavior.
• In addition, people may feel good not only from their role of helper, but simply
because of what is called empathic joy—the pleasure one has at seeing another
person experience relief.
15. o Children learn that helping others can be rewarding.
o Younger children focus on the rewards they get from parents and others,
but as they develop into adolescents, they begin to reward themselves
for helping, taking pride in their actions.
o Their helpful behavior can then be internally motivated, leading them to
help even without the promise of immediate material or social rewards
o In their negative state relief model, Robert Cialdini and his colleagues
(1987) propose that because of this positive effect of helping, people
who are feeling bad maymbe inclined to help others in order to improve
their mood.
o Indeed, after experiencing a traumatic event, some individuals seek out
opportunities to help others in order to feel better about themselves
instead of becoming bitter and antisocial.
16. Being Good
In addition to wanting to feel good, many of us also are motivated to be
good—that is, to help because we recognize that “it’s the right thing to do.”
Some situations are especially likely to call to mind norms that compel
helpful behaviors.
17. The Cost of Helping or of Not Helping
♦ Clearly helping has its rewards, but it has its costs as well.
♦ Other helpers have done more sustained and deliberate helping, such as the
people who helped hide runaway slaves in the nineteenth-century United
States or the people who helped hide Jews during the Holocaust.
♦ Sharon Shepela and others (1999) call this type of thoughtful helping in the
face of potentially enormous costs courageous resistance.
♦ And although giving help is often associated with positive affect and health,
when the help involves constant and exhausting demands, which is often the
case when taking long-term care of a very ill person, the effects on helpers’
physical and mental health—as well as on their financial security—can be
quite negative
18. To lower some of the costs of helping, some legislatures have created “Good
Samaritan” laws that encourage bystanders to intervene in emergencies by
offering them legal protection, particularly doctors who volunteer medical care
when they happen upon emergencies.
Other kinds of Good Samaritan laws increase the costs of failing to help.
Sometimes called “duty to rescue” laws, these laws require people to provide
or summon aid in an emergency, so long as they do not endanger themselves
in the process.
In the United States, this kind of duty to rescue law is relatively rare, but they
are more common in Europe and Canada.
19. Altruism or Egoism: The Great Debate
o Are our helpful behaviors always egoistic— motivated by selfish concerns?
Or are humans ever truly altruistic—motivated by the desire to increase
another’s welfare?
o Many psychological theories assume an egoistic, self-interested bottom
line.
o Daniel Batson thinks not. he believes that the motivation behind some
helpful actions is truly altruistic and that empathy plays a critically
important role in it.
20. The Empathy–Altruism Hypothesis
Batson’s model of altruism is based on his view of the consequences of
empathy.
According to Batson, if you perceive someone in need and imagine how that
person feels, you are likely to experience other-oriented feelings of empathic
concern, which in turn produce the altruistic motive to reduce the other
person’s distress.
There are, however, instances in which people perceive someone in need and
focus on their own feelings about this person or on how they would feel in that
person’s situation.
Although many people (and some researchers) may think of this as “empathy,”
Batson contrasts this with instances in which people’s concern is with how the
other person is feeling.
It’s when your focus is on the other person that true altruism is possible.
21.
22. three distinct components of empathy:
an emotional aspect (emotional empathy, which involves sharing the feelings
and emotions of others),
a cognitive component, which involves perceiving others’ thoughts and
feelings accurately (empathic accuracy),
empathic concern, which involves feelings of concern for another’s well-
being
24. Convergence of Motivations: Volunteering
People tend to engage in more long-term helping behavior, such as volunteerism,
due to multiple motives.
Some of these motives are associated with empathy, such as perspective taking
and empathic concern, whereas other motives are more egoistic, such as wanting
to enhance one’s résumé, relieve negative emotions, or conform to prosocial
norms.
Allen Omoto and others (2009) have found that both other-focused motivation
and self-focused motivation predicted volunteerism.
When helping demands more of us, self-interest may keep us going.