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| Any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person |
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| The desire to help another person even if it involves a cost to the helper |
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| The idea that behaviors that help a genetic relative are favored by natural selection |
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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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| The ability to put oneself in the shoes of another person and to experience events 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 help that person purely for altruistic reasons, regardless of what we have to gain |
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| The qualities that cause an individual to help others in a wide variety of situations |
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| The group with which an individual identifies as a member |
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| Any group with which an individual does not identify |
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| Negative-State Relief Hypothesis |
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| The idea that people help in order to alleviate their own sadness and distress |
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| Urban Overload hypothesis |
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| The theory that people living in cities are constantly being bombarded with stimulation and that they keep to themselves to avoid being overwhelmed by it |
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| The finding that the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help |
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| Bystanders'assuming that nothing ia wrong in an emergency because no one else looks concerned |
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| Diffusion of Responsibility |
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| The phenomenon whereby each bystander's sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witnesses increases |
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