Social Psychology Questions

Help is crucially dependent on people’s perceptions of someone as both needing and ______ help.

According to Schaller and Cialdini (1990), a ______ mood leads to more helping, because you pay more attention to others around you.

The effect in which someone that needs help but doesn’t receive any, even though there are a lot of bystanders, is due to _______ of responsibility.

The "norm of family privacy" makes help ________ likely to be offered.

In humans, cognitive and social processes _______ biologically driven helping, like reciprocal helping or helping kin.

According to evolutionary theory, although helping kin may result in personal costs, we indirectly help ourselves by helping our _________.

People sometimes help to alleviate their own _______ at the victim’s suffering.

People are often motivated by a feeling of ________ to relieve another’s suffering, regardless of personal rewards and costs.

If someone is ______-focused, as opposed to self-focused, they are more likely to help.

Helping with the aim of relieving the negative emotions experienced when we observe someone in pain is a typical _______ motive.

Being mimicked tends to increase liking, ________  empathy, and facilitate social interactions.

A social dilemma in which too much harvesting by one individual has negative outcomes for the whole group is called a resource ________ dilemma.

Most people act in a ______ way in social dilemmas.

When individuals identify with groups, one of the consequences is that the greater _________ of the group becomes the top priority.

The chance of cooperation in a social dilemma is greater when the group is ________ in size.

When arousal is high and time for reflections is limited, people act on the basis of the most _______ motives or norms.

Help that is the result of _______ processing can result in long-term commitment.

Helpful efforts in the workplace that go beyond a worker’s formal job description are called ________ _______ ________.

One of the ways to increase the chance of being helped is to focus your request for help on ________ people.