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| Having a selfless motivation for helping |
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| A proposed personality composite consisting of five traits, each of which correlates positively with helping behavior: empathy, internal locus of control, belief in a just world, a sense of social responsibility, and low egocentrism |
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| A phenomenon in which as more people are present, each individual is less likely to help |
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| The act of weighing the relative costs and benefits of helping to decide whether or not to provide the help |
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| Decision Model of Bystander Intervention |
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| The model derived by Bibb Latane and John Darley that explains the five steps required to provide help to someone in need and what can interfere with successful completion of each of these steps |
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| Diffusion of Responsibility |
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| A decreased feeling of responsibility to help in a group; if an emergency arises in a group setting, it is less likely that any one person will help than if someone was witnessing the emergenc alone, because being in a group decreases each person's feeling of personal responsibility to help |
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| Having a selfish motivation for helping |
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| Having compassion for others and a feeling of seeing the world through the eyes of another individual |
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| Empathy-Altruism Model of Prosocial Behavior |
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| A model suggesting that true altruism is a product of empathy; this empathy can create nurturing feelings toward a target or a goal to increase the target's welfare |
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| The effect wherein learning about how humans fall prey to obstacles to helping can aid us in overcoming those obstacles in the future; it extends to benefits from learning about other human biases as well |
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| The tendency of people to help their biological relatives over nonfamily members, even at great cost to themselves, thus favoring the reproductive success of one's relatives over his or her own survival |
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| Engaging in actions that restore, in one's own mind, the proper moral order |
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| Negative State Relief Model |
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| A model positing that the reason people help others is to improve their own negative mood |
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| Behavior designed to help another person |
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| The idea that if others help us, we should help them, and that if we help them, they will help us |
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| Social Responsibility Norm |
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| The idea that we have social responsibility to help others; the extent to which this extends to outgroup members varies by culture |
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