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Why do we help?
            Social exchange and social norms
            The inside story: Dennis Krebs on life experience and professional inserests
            Evolutionary psychology
            Comparing and evaluating theories of helping
            Genuine altruism
            Focus on: The benefits—and the costs—of empathy-induced altruism

When will we help?
            Number of bystanders
            The inside story: John M. Darley on bystander reactions
            Helping when someone else does
            Time pressure
            Similarity
            Research close-up: Ingroup similarity and helping

Who will help?
            Personality traits
            Religious faith

How can we increase helping?
            Reduce ambiguity, increase responsibility
            Guilt and concern for self-image
            Socializing altruism
            Focus on: Behavior and attitudes among rescuers of Jews
            Postscript: Taking social psychology into life







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