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| motivated by the desire to increase another's welfare |
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| arousal: cost-reward model |
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| the proposition that people react to emergency situations by acting in the most cost-effective way to reduce the arousal of shock and alarm |
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| reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on observers |
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| the effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping |
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| diffusion of responsibility |
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| the belief that others will or should take the responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need |
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| motivated by the desire to increase one's own welfare |
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| empathy-altruism hypothesis |
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| the proposition that empathic concern for a person in need produces an altruistic motive for helping |
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| the effect whereby a good mood increases helping behavior |
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| preferential helping of genetic relatives, so that genes held in common will survive |
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| negative state relief model |
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| the proposition that people help others in order to counteract their own feelings of sadness |
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| norm of social responsibility |
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| a moral standard emphasizing that people should help those who need assistance |
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| the state in which people mistakenly believe that their own thoughts and feelings are different from those of others, even though everyone's behavior is the same |
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| actions intended to benefit others |
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| a general rule of conduct reflecting standards of social approval and disapproval |
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| threat-to-self-esteem model |
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| the theory that reactions to receiving assistance depend on whether help is perceived as supportive or threatening |
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| the sense in individualistic cultures that people's attitudes and behaviors are, and should be, highly influenced by their self-interest |
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