Chapter 8
Helping and Hurting
Voluntary behavior with the intent to help other people is called prosocial behavior. Why do people help other people? Is personal benefit such as…
Some researchers suggest that altruism operates on empathy. Empathy is the capacity to understand another person’s perspective, to feel what he…
Humans engage in aggression when they seek to cause harm or pain to another person. Aggression takes two forms depending on one’s motives:…
A modern form of aggression is bullying. As you learn in your study of child development, socializing and playing with other children is beneficial…
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University
Social psychologists and personality psychologists both attempt to predict human…
Source: Peter Mende-Siedlecki & Jay Van Bavel—New York University
Social ostracism is defined as being ignored and excluded in the presence…