SciShow Psych: Are We Inherently Good?

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Conventional wisdom might have you believe that human beings only really start showing empathy after a few years of learning social norms and morals. However, some research suggests that this kind of compulsion to do good might be innate. As in, there from birth. Do we act with altruism simply because we’re brought up to be kind, or is it something deeper? Check out Journey to the Microcosmos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/humans-are-ultrasocial-and-emotional/7E30F7AA8263D2E04B22D0B78E12885F https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-prosocial-behavior-2795479 https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-altruism-2794828 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00822/full https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0649 https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/goodness-sake/201610/animal-altruism https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/peeps/issue-48 http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConsciousness.pdf https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093625 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-016-0037 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788848/ http://perpustakaan.unitomo.ac.id/repository/Being%20Honest%20About%20Dishonesty%20Correlating%20Self-Reports%20and%20Actual%20Lying.pdf https://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/tomas/pdf/Tomasello_etal_2012.pdf https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100825/full/news.2010.427.html#B1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13420-015-0201-2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982024/ Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/kitty-bath-time-gm157421701-8496659 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/boy-and-girl-pulling-toy-bear-gm935974270-256049350 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/happy-young-man-in-the-hospital-gm1127509478-297189316 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/infant-boy-playing-with-teddy-bear-on-a-white-carpet-at-home-hc2w4t3sejsf20g3d https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/senior-and-young-hands-bokeh-background-gm1066508546-285191257 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/toddler-attempting-to-catch-a-ball-isolated-white-gm152975090-15668265 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/beautiful-hand-isolated-on-white-background-gm966855514-263766539 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/smiley-icons-set-gm995025014-269378486 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/beautiful-seamless-looped-abstract-motion-background-yellow-triangles-polygons-4k-and-full-hd-fd14zxz https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/speech-bubbles-gm961506416-262567431 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/baby-playing-with-paper-cube-gm1086590010-291531222 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/baby-boy-in-the-comfort-of-moms-arms-isolated-on-white-background-gm1065958108-285058453 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/human-organ-transplantation-gm171156459-18130774 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cute-newborn-baby-gm984198342-267097854


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