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Helping - Coggle Diagram

- - - - diffused responsibility
  - - - Interpret as emergency?
        
        yes
        
        Assume responsbility?
        
        yes
        
        help
        
        no
        
        no help
        
        no
        
        no help
    - - no help
- - - - We help as it makes us happy
        
        intrinsically rewarding
    - - We feel guilty prior and thus help to clear that guilt
        
        extrinsically rewarding
    - - get good emotions, remove stress(bad emotions)
    - - exception to this is profound grief
  - - - internal: controllable by the person
        
        Sympathy
        
        helping
      - External: uncontrollable by the person
        
        no Sympathy
        
        no helping
    - - Expectation that people will help those who need help, without any favours in return
        
        intrinsically rewarding
    - - Expectation that people will return the favour and not hurt those that helped them, we should help those who helped us, not harm them
        
        extrinsically rewarding
  - - - evolution selected altruism toward one's relatives(kin)
        
        intrinsically rewarding
    - - One helps another because one expects something in return, failure to help results in punishment
        
        works best in small, isolated groups
      - extrinsically rewarding
      - indirect
        
        I’ll scratch your back, you scratch someone’s, and someone will scratch mine.
- - - - egoistic (possibly helping) behaviour to resolve own stress
  - - - behaviour (helping) to reduce other's distress
- - - - behaviour affect attitudes
  - - - makes them more self aware
- - - - narrow my focus of concern to those for whom I especially care—the needing friend—and in so doing to lose sight of the bleeding crowd