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Chapter 8

优点及缺点

Chapter 8

Helping and Hurting

Voluntary behavior with the intent to help other people is called prosocial behavior. Why do people help other people? Is personal benefit such as feeling …
Some researchers suggest that altruism operates on empathy. Empathy is the capacity to understand another person’s perspective, to feel what he or …
Social traps are negative situations where people get caught in a direction or relationship that later proves to be unpleasant, with no easy way to back …
Humans engage in aggression when they seek to cause harm or pain to another person. Aggression takes two forms depending on one’s motives: hostile …
A modern form of aggression is bullying. As you learn in your study of child development, socializing and playing with other children is beneficial for …
The discussion of bullying highlights the problem of witnesses not intervening to help a victim. This is a common occurrence, as the following …
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Social psychologists and personality psychologists both attempt to predict human …
Source: Peter Mende-Siedlecki & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Social ostracism is defined as being ignored and excluded in the presence of …
Social exclusion is a complex social phenomenon with powerful negative consequences. Given the impact of social exclusion on mental and emotional health, …