Psyc 360 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I Helping Outline of Current Lecture II Benefits and Costs of Helping Current Lecture Steps to helping 0 Event Occurs Distraction 1 Notice Pluralistic Ignorance a form of private conformity smoke study 2 Interpret as an emergency Diffusion of Responsibility Seizure study 3 Take charge 4 Decide how to help Cost Benefit Analysis Audience inhibition 5 HELP Benefits Non social Avoiding guilt Costs If I fail while helping sued Put myself at risk Alters our own priorities speech study Financial Social Pride Embarrassment from overreacting Reputation credit Reciprocation These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Study People seminar students are told to write a speech and then travel to another building They were told they were either early or late Each participant saw a man slumped in the doorway Who helped the man Some people had to write a speech about the parable of a good Samaritan while others wrote about career paths The topic of the speech did not matter when it came to helping When are people are more likely to help When they aren t running late Those who were running late were less likely to help career path speech good Samaritan speech who helped On time late We will only move from step 4 to step 5 in helping if the benefits outweigh the costs Audience Inhibition failing to help for fear of making a bad impression Form of public conformity Child abduction video Several people just walked by the young girl and man trying to abduct her Finally after hours two men saw what was happening and dropped what they were doing and went after the man When we help it is for the sake of helping ourselves and our own well being Are there any purely selfless good deeds Carol Marcy study in book Other s suffering cost benefit analysis if benefits outweigh costs Help o Low road to helping Other s suffering Just helping because we empathize o High road to helping
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