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
- IV
- 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
- Background
- 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
- Levine
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