Chapter 8
Helping and Hurting
![Egoism and Altruism](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11073.jpg)
Voluntary behavior with the intent to help other people is called prosocial behavior. Why do people help other people? Is personal benefit such as…
![Empathy](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11074.jpg)
Some researchers suggest that altruism operates on empathy. Empathy is the capacity to understand another person’s perspective, to feel what he…
![Aggression](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11076.jpg)
Humans engage in aggression when they seek to cause harm or pain to another person. Aggression takes two forms depending on one’s motives:…
![Bullying](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11077.jpg)
A modern form of aggression is bullying. As you learn in your study of child development, socializing and playing with other children is beneficial…
![Analyzing Situations in Helping Behavior](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/10305.jpg)
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University
Social psychologists and personality psychologists both attempt to predict human…
![Ostracism: Effects of Being Ignored Over the Internet](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/10336.jpg)
Source: Peter Mende-Siedlecki & Jay Van Bavel—New York University
Social ostracism is defined as being ignored and excluded in the presence…