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SUMMARY:The Reluctant Altruist - Prof Eamonn Ferguson
DTSTART:20161108T130000Z
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CONTACT:Johanna M Lukate
DESCRIPTION:When faced with others free-riding traditional accounts in the
  literature indicate that people either defect and free-ride themselves or
  punish free-riders in order to encourage cooperation. Punishment is belie
 ved associated with negative emotions in particular anger directed at free
 -riders. However\, we identified a preference in blood donors (a behaviour
  marked by high degree of free-riding) which we termed ‘reluctant altrui
 sm’. Reluctant altruists\, do not trust that other will help and so help
  when others free-ride. In this talk I will detail the development of a th
 eory of reluctant altruism\, and the development of a psychometric assessm
 ent of reluctant altruism with three facets (helping due to: (1) lack of t
 rust\, (2) negative emotions - including anger – at free-riders and (3) 
 feeling that social norms reflect an uncaring society. I will detail how t
 his preference is a mixture of selfish (e.g.\, warm-glow) and other inspir
 ing motives and how it relates to work on condition cooperation\, crowding
  out and blood donation and blood donor recruitment.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology\, Downing
  Site
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