Exam 9: Prosocial Behavior: Doing What’s Best for Others

McKelvey sees her cousin crying because she has lost a toy. She feels sad because her cousin feels sad. McKelvey is experiencing which emotional response?

According to evolutionary theory on kin selection, monozygotic (identical) twins should help one another more than dizygotic (fraternal) twins.

Before conducting his classic research on obedience to authority, Milgram conducted a survey in which he asked a number of psychiatrists to predict what percentage of people would "go all the way" and administer the highest levels of shocks. The psychiatrists in his survey predicted that ____ would do so.

In Vohs et al.'s (2006) experiments, people who had been primed with a screen saver of dollar bills tended to ____ than people who had a blank screen or a fish screen saver image as a prime.

Research on the influence of physical attractiveness and helping indicates that people are more likely to help ________________ individuals than they are ________________ individuals.