Psychology Core Studies - Levine

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  • Created on: 26-09-21 12:48
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  • Aim
    • Levine
      • Background
        • Kin selection theory - tendency to perform behaviours that may favour the chance of survival of people with a similar genetic base
        • Reciprocal altruism - the incentive for an individual to help in the present is based on the expectation of the potential receipt in the future
      • Method/Design
        • Cross-cultural quasi experiment
        • Independent measures design
      • Variables
        • IV
          • Whether victim had hurt/injured leg
          • Whether victim dropped a pen
          • Whether victim was blind and trying to cross the road
        • DV
          • Helping rate of 23 individual citiies
      • Sample
        • Large cities in each of 23 countries
        • 1,198 p's
        • Selected by approaching 2nd person who crossed  predetermined line
      • Results
        • Rio most helpful (93%), Kuala Lumpur least helpful (40%)
        • Statistically sig relationship between economic productivity measure and overall helping
        • Economic production positively correlated with individualism & negatively correlated with walking speed
      • Conclusions
        • Large cross-cultural variations in helping rates
        • Less economic productivity -> may be accompanied by a traditional value system
        • Simpatia countries emphasise kindness
    • Determine if citiy's tendency to offer non-emergency help to strangers same across situations over wide range of cultures
    • Look at helping behaviours across a wide range of cultures
    • Test whether helping of strangers varies between countries

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