Summary: Prosocial And Antisocial Behavior

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• Why do we examine prosocial behavior

  - important theme in religion, philosophy (it is universal)
  -   1964 turning point; kitty vermoord, niemand deed iets > hierdoor interesse prosocial behavior

• How is prosocial behavior defined?

  Behavior that is defined by society as generally beneficial to other people and/or to the ongoing or cultural system

• Which two components are necessary for definition of prosocial behavior

  - always interpersonal 
  - context dependent

• Which forms of prosocial behavior do we have

  1. Helping 
  any action that has the consequence of providing some benefit to or improving the well-being of another person
  
  2. Altruism 
  helping purely out of the desire to benefit someone else, with no benefit (costs to oneself) 
  
  3. Cooperation
  acting together in the pursuit of shared goals, enjoyment of joint activity or simple furthering the relationship

• Which types of helping do we have (volgens McGuire)

  1. Casual helping
  2. Substantial personal helping
  3. Emotional helping
  4 Emergency helping

• Which components does the 3 dimensional classification system has on helping

  - planned/formal vs spontaneous/ informal 
  - serious vs not serious 
  - direct vs indirect

• What does the latane en Darley model say about when people are prosocial

  Whether a person will act prosocially is the result of a logical decision making process that includes 5 steps.

• What is pluralistic ignorance (stap 3 taking personal)

  Looking to one another to interpret situation

• Give more description of 'we feel empathy and we want to reduce stress''

  - aversive arousal reduction; we want to reduce our arousal when witnessing an event or emergency either by helping or by walking away
  
  - altruism vs egoism

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• What must aggression be to be aggression

  1. Aggression is behavioral 
  2. Aggression is intentional (voluntarily choosen) 
  3. Aggression involves harm or injury (negative consequences for another person) 
  4. Aggression involves living beings
  5. Aggression and avoidance motivation in the recipient