Human+Relationships--Pro-Social+Behavior

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**Read and Share: Reports and research on Altruistic behavior**

 * Read your assigned topic
 * Take notes on details and your personal thoughts / reactions to it
 * Share the article and your notes / comments with the class
 * Altruism and the Brain: The Joy of Giving
 * Genetic Altruism: Do unto Others
 * Cheating Altruism
 * Evolutionary Charity

The Altruism Wall See instructions here for this assignment and where to post it.
 * Look for examples of altruism in the media
 * Be prepared to share them with the class and answer these two questions
 * 1) Are all of the chosen examples really examples of altruism? Why or why not?
 * 2) What trends do we see for the reasons that people help others altruistically?

= //__Selected Readings for 8.1 Pro-Social Behavior__// =

**Further explanation of the theories behind Zimbardo´s Stanford Prison Experiment and group dynamics.**
http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2012/09/tall-tales.aspx
 * A second look at the Bystander Effect and Other "tall tales of Psychology."**