What social psychology principle of attraction and self-esteem can explain the “trophy wife”?

In Piliavin & Piliavin (1972) study, people were observed as they helped either an older man who collapsed on the subway. In one condition the man who collapsed ________. In the other condition he ____.

There are two theories of helping that deal with feelings of empathy: the empathy-altruism model and the negative-state relief hypothesis. Explain helping behavior in the context of these two theories. Under what circumstances will we help? Under what circumstances will we not help?

There are only two ways (according to research) in which opposites attract. One way is dominant personalities are attracted to submissive personalities and the other is:

Describe the Good Samaritan Study (Darley & Batson, 1973). (A) Which of the 5 steps to helping was it examining? (B) How was the study conducted (method)? (C) What were the results (under what circumstances did helping occur)?

A step to helping is interpreting the situation as an emergency. In class I gave an example of James Patrick Bulger who was:

According to familiarity explanation for the effect of proximity on attraction, we tend to like a person the more you see them. The more we are exposed to something new, the more we tend to like that person/thing. This is known as the _______ effect.

Which of the following students best describes the theory of reciprocal altruism?

When men and women are asked to self-report attributes that they find attractive which attribute(s) are ranked the highest?

Another reason for the bystander effect is ___, in which we become concerned about other people negatively appraising our altruistic behavior.