Pilliavin's Research

Pilliavin's research, Pilliavin wants to study the spread of responsibility in the real world and whether it actually happened. To do this, she carried out field trials on the New York subway. (I) The experiment consisted of a team of 4 students on a 7-8 minute journey by subway. The team consists of a victim, a model and two observers. The female observer and the model and the victim enter the train through different doors, the observer sits somewhere in the adjacent place and the model becomes an important position or an adjacent position depending on the selected place.

But people with a high degree of sympathy changed places with victims and changed places. Batson claims that this is true altruism. Characteristics such as aggression and superiority are related to lowering empathy, and individuals with these characteristics show less social behavior than individuals without these characteristics (Eisenberg et al., 2010). But if you do not provide aid, sympathy can be considered to have a bad influence like guilt, and this negative situation is beneficial to the individual, so it is helpful to help others who sympathize with you You can stimulate positive emotions and emotions with negative emotions. This supports the awakening of Pilliavin (1981): the cost of Cialdini and Kendrick (1976) - the reward model and the negative state relief model, hence the evidence that selfless altruism does not exist.

It helps to reduce negative emotions. Other experts suggested that altruistic behavior could help alleviate negative emotions generated by other people in pain. Essentially, by meeting other people with problems, we may feel depressed, painful or uncomfortable. The fundamental causes of altruism and the existence of true "pure" altruism are the two issues that social psychologists are discussing. Are we working on helping others for true selfless reasons, or are they guiding the hidden benefits of our altruistic behavior?