**Readings in bold are required**
Resources for Social Psychology
The evolution of altruism in humans / Off-campus
Evolutionary perspectives on prosocial behavior
Multilevel selection theory and major evolutionary transitions
Altruistic punishment in humans
Powering up with indirect reciprocity in a large-scale field experiment
Banishment Public caning Multillevel selection
Banishment
Public caning
Multillevel selection
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 Video: Bus driver
The emerging study of positive empathy
Video: Empathy-induced altruism
Empathy-altruism hypothesis: Turning to experiments
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
Video: Bus driver
The neuroscience of empathy
VIDEO: Mirror neurons
Oxytocin and the pharmacological dissection of affiliation - (I have substituted this article for the one below -- you might only be able to access this new article from on campus)
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?
Why do we help? Developmental perspectives
Beyond good and evil: What motivations underlie children's prosocial behavior?
How infants and toddlers react to antisocial others
"A customer walked into his pizza shop ..." 5-yr-olds demonstrate bystander effect 5-yr-old helps homeless man
"A customer walked into his pizza shop ..."
5-yr-olds demonstrate bystander effect
5-yr-old helps homeless man
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...
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
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
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
I am collecting the take-home portion of the midterm at the beginning of class. Then we will take the in-class portion.
Who helps?
Identification with all humanity as a moral concept...
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
When does familiarity promote versus undermine interpersonal attraction?
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
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
The happiness of giving: The time-ask effect
Extreme rituals promote prosociality
Time, money, and morality
Ice bucket challenge The martyrdom effect
Ice bucket challenge
The martyrdom effect
An immigrant's story
Caregiving and coping in carers of people with anorexia nervosa
Issues in Dementia caregiving
NO CLASS -- HONORS DAY
Effective helping: Interviewing and counseling techniques
Kidney donor
Harm to others outweighs harm to self
The identifiable victim bias
The number of fatalities drives disaster aid
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
Priming Buddhist concepts The effects of playing prosocial video games 500 Questions
Priming Buddhist concepts
The effects of playing prosocial video games
500 Questions
Research/Analysis Paper Due
"Helping" vs"Being a Helper"
Long-term relations among prosocial-media use, empathy, and prosocial behavior
Helping fellow beings: Anthropomorphized social causes...
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
Is an outgroup member in need a friend indeed?
Self-affirmation among the poor GiveDirectly The Red Cross' Secret Disaster
Self-affirmation among the poor
GiveDirectly
The Red Cross' Secret Disaster
1:00-3:00 pm
