Crash Course Psychology #40: Aggression vs. Altruism

- Grades
- Grades 7–12, Middle School, High School
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Zip
- Subject
- Social Studies, History, Psychology
- Topic
- crash course psychology, human behavior
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Explain how shared goals changed intergroup conflict in the Robbers Cave study
Distinguish biological, learned, and frustration-based accounts of aggression
Relate the bystander effect to diffusion of responsibility
Teaching tips
Use the shared-goals prompt as the bridge between intergroup aggression and later helping behavior.
Compare social exchange with the social-responsibility norm after learners define the bystander effect.
Skills covered
Study interpretation — learners explain what conflict and emergency-helping experiments investigated.
Behavioral comparison — aggressive actions are contrasted with altruistic choices and social norms.
Causal reasoning — students connect group presence with diffusion of responsibility in the bystander effect.
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Core concepts
Aggression
Altruism
Bystander effect
Social responsibility
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