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| Any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person |
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| Any act that benefits another person but does not benefit the helper and often involves some personal cost to the helper |
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| Explains social behavior in terms of genetic factors that evolved over time according to natural selection. |
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| Shows helping a genetic relative is favored by natural selection |
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| Expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future. |
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| Actions are dictated by a desire to maximize outcomes/rewards and minimize cost. |
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| An emotional connection with a person in need. |
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| Empathy-altruism hypothesis |
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| States that when we feel empathy for a person, we will attempt to help purely for altruistic reasons. |
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| Common in Latino cultures, refers to a range of friendly social and emotional traits. |
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| Negative-state relief hypothesis |
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| States that people help in order to alleviate their own sadness or distress. |
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| Urban-overload hypothesis |
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| States that people living in cities are likely to keep to themselves in order to avoid being overloaded by stimulation. |
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| Finding that the greater the number of witnesses to an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help. |
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| When other bystanders are present, people are more likely to assume an actual emergency is something minor |
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| Diffusion of responsibility |
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| Each bystander's sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witnesses increases. |
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