Read Chapter 14 from the course textbook titled,\u00a0Helping and Prosocial Behavior.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Research, on your own,\u00a0why people help and don\u2019t help. Research these topics:\u00a0Altruistic help,\u00a0Egoistic help,\u00a0Cost-Benefit Analysis,\u00a0Negative State Relief Model,\u00a0Pluralistic ignorance,\u00a0Diffusion of responsibility, Bystander effect, and\u00a0Evolutionary\u00a0theories\u00a0of prosocial behaviors\u00a0by reading the e-text and by locating sources on your own.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Identify a real-world situation, event, tragedy, etc. where either an individual or group helped or didn\u2019t help.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
After you research these topics, read the chapter and identify a real-world event.\u00a0 Write a 500-750 word editorial expressing your viewpoint about why people help or don\u2019t help and apply the concepts to a real-world event. Use at least\u00a0one\u00a0of the concepts from number 2 in your editorial. And remember to discuss a real world situation, event, tragedy, etc. where either an individual or group helped or didn’t help.\u00a0(See a list of suggested topics to focus on in your editorial)\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Consider the following: Who is your audience? Do you want to write an editorial to the public to encourage people to help more? Or do you want to write about the evolutionary perspective to discuss how\u00a0helping behaviors and the need to maintain cooperative alliances with others has been essential for survival? Or maybe you want to\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0to\u00a0children and teenagers\u00a0how the\u00a0bystander effect\u00a0creates apathy, in order to encourage them to speak up and get help when needed. (See list of suggested topics below)\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Please double space your paper, and remember this is a persuasive paper, so you want to convince your reader that your argument is valid. Start your editorial by stating your argument and create an interesting title that lets the audience know the focus of your editorial.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Remember to back up your\u00a0arguments by providing evidence from your sources. Discuss specific experts in the field, and what their views are, discuss statistics, and specific authors and facts from the research you located.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Be creative and have fun with this assignment and think about what stance you want to take on helping behaviors and what you want your reader to know about prosocial action or a lack of action. Whatever argument you chose, remember to back up\u00a0your\u00a0argument\u00a0by providing evidence from your sources and use your example from the media. Also, remember to include counter arguments which discuss the opposing side of the argument.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Editorials need to be written in your own words so make sure you are not copying ANY information from sources. You will not need to provide in-text citations, but you will need to add your sources in APA style at the bottom of your editorial in a reference list. You might refer to a source in your editorial which is quite common when editors are writing their articles, but you should use your own words and you don\u2019t have to cite within your article.\u00a0See the general guidelines under the assignment editorial folders.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Upload your completed editorial\u00a0into the\u00a0Editorial #3\u00a0Assignment\u00a0folder.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Read Chapter 14 from the course textbook titled,\u00a0Helping and Prosocial Behavior.\u00a0 Research, on your own,\u00a0why people help and don\u2019t help. Research these topics:\u00a0Altruistic help,\u00a0Egoistic help,\u00a0Cost-Benefit Analysis,\u00a0Negative State Relief Model,\u00a0Pluralistic ignorance,\u00a0Diffusion of responsibility, Bystander effect, and\u00a0Evolutionary\u00a0theories\u00a0of prosocial behaviors\u00a0by reading the e-text and by locating sources on your own.\u00a0\u00a0 Identify a real-world situation, event, tragedy, etc. where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-12332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}