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| Any behaviour that has the goal of helping another person |
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| Helping without expectation of personal gain |
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| The idea that we're more likely to help those we are genetically related to |
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| The ability to understand other people's perspectives and respond emotionally to other people's experiences |
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| A personality factor that describes the extent to which a person's willingness to help depends on larger moral standards rather than the person's needs and the expected consequences for him or her helping |
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| Decision making process model |
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| a model that describes helping behaviour as functions of five distinct steps |
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| Diffusion of responsibility |
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| the belief that other people present in a situation will assume responsibility which contributes to the bystander effect |
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| the situation whereby people are less likely to help in emergency situations when there are people present than if the person who could help is alone, resulting in decreased likelihood of help being given |
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| Arousal/cost-reward model |
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| A model that describes helping behaviour as caused by the physiological arousal that people experience when they see someone in need of help and in part their calculation of the costs and rewards of providing such help |
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| when people are in a good mood they are more likely to help |
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| urban overload hypothesis |
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| the hypothesis that people who live in urban areas are constantly exposed to stimulation, which in turn leads them to decrease their awareness of their environment |
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| Empathy altruism hypothesis |
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| the idea that when we feel empathy for a person we will help that person even if we incur a cost in doing so |
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| negative state relief hypothesis |
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| a hypothesis that people are motivated to help others in order to relive their own negative feelings |
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| the idea that we should help those who are in need of assistance, because in turn will then help us in the future |
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| Norm of social responsibility |
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| the idea that we have an obligation to help those who are in need of assistance |
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| a relationship in which people desire and expect strict reciprocity |
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| Self-evaluation maintenance model |
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| the theory that our self concept can be threatened if someone performs better than us on a task that is relevant to our sense of esteem |
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