**Readings in bold are required**
Resources for Social Psychology
The evolution of altruism in humans / Off-campus
Evolutionary perspectives on prosocial behavior
Proximal and Distal Causes
Meiosis refresher
Caring for loved ones top priority
Multilevel selection theory and major evolutionary transitions
Multilevel selection
Altruistic punishment in humans
Powering up with indirect reciprocity in a large-scale field experiment
Banishment Public caning
Banishment
Public caning
Tribalism is human nature
Your dog has your back
Why hate the good guy?
Intuitive prosociality
Empathy-induced altruistic motivation
The emerging study of positive empathy Video: Empathy-induced altruism Empathy-altruism hypothesis: Turning to experiments Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
The emerging study of positive empathy
Video: Empathy-induced altruism
Empathy-altruism hypothesis: Turning to experiments
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
Why do we help? Personal and social perspectives
Property damage and exposure to other people in distress differentially predict prosocial behavior after a natural disaster
Narcissism and self- versus recipient-oriented imagery in charitable giving
Searching for the prosocial personality
Prosocial conformity
Suffering and compassion
Empathy in relationships
The neuroscience of empathy
VIDEO: Mirror neurons
Opiods and social bonding: Effect of naltrexone on feelings of social connection and ventral striatum activity to close others
Oxytocin and the pharmacological dissection of affiliation
Social effects of oxytocin in humans: Context and person matter
Oxytocin selectively improves empathy accuracy Tryptophan promotes charitable donating Tryptophan promotes interpersonal trust Video on research Hunger games: Fluctuations in blood glucose levels... Acetaminophen reduces empathy?
Oxytocin selectively improves empathy accuracy
Tryptophan promotes charitable donating
Tryptophan promotes interpersonal trust
Video on research
Hunger games: Fluctuations in blood glucose levels...
Acetaminophen reduces empathy?
The amygdala and helping
A neural link between empathy and helping of strangers
How infants and toddlers react to antisocial others
Not noble savages after all: Limits to early altruism
Concern for group reputation increases prosociality in young children
5-yr-olds demonstrate bystander effect 5-yr-old helps homeless man
5-yr-olds demonstrate bystander effect
5-yr-old helps homeless man
The social origins of human prosociality
The need to contribute during adolescence
Beyond good and evil: What motivations underlie children's prosocial behavior?
Children understand revenge before reciprocity
Humans' unique turn-taking skills
Children delay gratification for cooperative ends
VIDEO: Shared intentionality
Ingroup love versus outgroup hate
Infants help even when hungry
What are the consequences of helping?
Prosocial spending and happiness: Using money to benefit others pays off
Giving to others and the association between stress and mortality When charitable acts are "tainted" by personal gain "Companies that raise money for schools keep 48% for themselves" Learning by helping?
Giving to others and the association between stress and mortality
When charitable acts are "tainted" by personal gain
"Companies that raise money for schools keep 48% for themselves"
Learning by helping?
The bystander effect: A meta-analytic review...
Does volunteering improve well-being?
The (revised) case of Kitty Genovese
50 years later, the case of Kitty Genovese
Commuters free trapped passenger
Bystanders helping
Technology for people with disabilitites
How bad can throwing away one plastic bottle be? 30 million wonder
From empathy to apathy: The bystander effect revisited
When do we help?
The smell of virtue.... / off campus
Are you being served...?
Making it easier to accept help
A meta-analytic review of moral licensing Self-serving justifications: Doing wrong and feeling moral
A meta-analytic review of moral licensing
Self-serving justifications: Doing wrong and feeling moral
When we are hungry we remain helpful
Helping under time pressure
Enduring Goodness: A person-by-situation perspective on prosocial behavior
Geographical differences in subjective well-being predict extraordinary altruism
Our genes want us to be altruists World Humanity Summit
Our genes want us to be altruists
World Humanity Summit
Forms of helping: Time vs. money
Identification with all humanity as a moral concept...
Motivational processes underlying both prejudice and helping / off campus Displays of care and aggression in response to cute stimuli Why familiarity breeds contempt We take care of our own: Caregiving salience increases out-group bias... Processing fluency The benefits of processing fluency Ingroup love and outgroup hate
Motivational processes underlying both prejudice and helping / off campus
Displays of care and aggression in response to cute stimuli
Why familiarity breeds contempt
We take care of our own: Caregiving salience increases out-group bias...
Processing fluency
The benefits of processing fluency
Ingroup love and outgroup hate
The happiness of giving: The time-ask effect
When does familiarity promote versus undermine interpersonal attraction?
Extreme rituals promote prosociality
Time, money, and morality
Ice bucket challenge The martyrdom effect
Ice bucket challenge
The martyrdom effect
Research on giving
Caregiving and coping in carers of people with anorexia nervosa
Issues in Dementia caregiving
Volunteerism research
Effective helping: Interviewing and counseling techniques
Kidney donor
"Helping" vs"Being a Helper"
Helping fellow beings: Anthropomorphized social causes...
Long-term relations among prosocial-media use, empathy, and prosocial behavior
Compassion training alters altruism... Do defaults save lives? The International Flag of Earth The Briefcase Alternatives to The Briefcase
Compassion training alters altruism...
Do defaults save lives?
The International Flag of Earth
The Briefcase
Alternatives to The Briefcase
Impediments to effective altruism: The role of subjective preferences in charitable giving
Priming Buddhist concepts
Nudging empathy
The effects of playing prosocial video games
500 Questions
Exercising your empathy
Is an outgroup member in need a friend indeed?
Increasing intergroup distinctiveness: The benefits of third party helping
Self-affirmation among the poor GiveDirectly The Red Cross' Secret Disaster
Self-affirmation among the poor
GiveDirectly
The Red Cross' Secret Disaster
Harm to others outweighs harm to self
The identifiable victim bias
The number of fatalities drives disaster aid
Giving help that is needed
Brits won't take free cash Donating at the register South Park - donating at register Homeless people read mean tweets about themselves Hero dog
Brits won't take free cash
Donating at the register
South Park - donating at register
Homeless people read mean tweets about themselves
Hero dog