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13 Cards in this Set
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Prosocial Behavior
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any act preformed with the goal of benefiting another person.
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Altruism
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the desire to help another person even if it involves a cost to the helper.
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Kin Selection
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the idea that behaviors that help a genetic relative are favored by natural selection
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Norm of Reciprocity
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the expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future.
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Empathy
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the ability to put oneself in the shoes of another and to experience evens and emotions the way that person experiences them.
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Empathy - Altruism Hypothesis
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the idea that when we feel empathy for a person, we will attempt to hep that person for purely altruistic reasons, regardless of what we have to gain.
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Altruistic Personality
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the qualities that cause an individual to help others in a wide variety of situations.
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In-Group
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the group with which an individual identifies as a member.
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Out-Group
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any group with which an individual does not identify
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Urban Overload Hypothesis
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the theory that people living in cities are constantly bombarded with stimulation and that they keep to themselves to avoid being overwhelmed.
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Bystander Effect
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the finding that the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely an one of them is to help.
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Pluralistic Ignorance
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the case in which people think that everyone else in interpreting a situation in a certain way, when in fact they are not.
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Diffusion of Responsibility
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the phenomenon wherein each bystander's sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witnesses increases
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