PPT-The Evolution of Helpful Behavior and Altruism

Mutualism Team of male lions 23 members Hunt together Share access to females pretty equally Going alone would not be as successful costbenefit Lazuli buntings Dominant bright colored males tolerate dull subordinate males in neighboring territories. Empathy Altruism vs. Felt Oneness. Week 4. Negative-State . Relief Hypotheses. Inconsistent support. Expected . mood enhancement . did . not decrease helping for individuals in a high-empathy . situation (Batson et al., 1989). NJIT. Bhavani Balasubramanian. Maria Stanko. Ellen Wisner. Brandeis University. Melissa Kosinski-Collins. Jim Morris. Dan Perlman. © Dan Perlman Ecolibrary.org. Context:. Midway through a course in . Ryuya. & Samata. Altruism. behavior . by an animal that is not beneficial . or . may be harmful to itself but that benefits others of its . species. e. xamples: birds, bats, bees. Evolution. the . Melbourne . Cure Research and the Community. David Evans, Project Inform. What’s been done so far. Fred Verdault’s study. Gay and bisexual men in the Netherlands. Definition of the cure very important:. Prosocial. Behavior: . The Egoism-Altruism Debate. Week 3. Egoism-Altruism Debate. Daniel Batson. Robert . Cialdini. Egoism-Altruism Debate. Altruism: motivational . state in which the . ultimate goal is increasing a victims’ welfare. Genetic and Evolutionary Foundations of Behavior. Why Genetics?. Behavior is hereditary!. Our environment has shaped our behavior across generations . . EVOLUTION. We can learn much about our behavior by studying our animal relatives. Altruism. Unselfish regard for the welfare of others.. Is there strength in numbers when handling an ambiguous emergencies?. Bystander Effect. (3:30). When in groups, individuals are less likely to go against the norm and help (or get involved). Evaluate psychological research relevant to the study of human relationships.. Distinguish between altruism and pro-social behavior.. Contrast two theories explaining altruism in humans.. Explain cross-cultural differences in pro-social behavior with reference to research studies.. Wason. Selection Task. P. RESENTED. . B. Y. :. Ngoc Tran & Laura Crandall. Outline. Cognitive Modules. Background. Wason. Selection Task. Purpose. Puzzles . vs. Social Contract problems. Fiddick. Mechanisms of concerted evolution. Unequal cross-over. Gene conversion: non-reciprocal transfer of information between homologous sequences; the main mechanism invoked to explain concerted evolution. Meta-analysis of studies of prosocial portrayals. Marie-Louise Mares (1996). Sponsored by Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. “It is commonly held that television viewing does more harm than good, especially to young audiences.”. patterns in the data. The theory that best matches the data is a short-lived reciprocity story in which donors reward the charity with respect to the initial gift, but the reciprocity is gone in futu behavior . counts as altruistic if it reduces the fitness of the organism performing the . behavior. , but boosts the fitness of others. . Altruism. Game theory with fitness rewards and punishments that then iterate over generations. . The process by which organism change over time. Based on science, not opinion.. Darwin. :. Evolution is descent with modification. Evolution. :. changes through time. Species accumulate difference.