Levine

• What is one of the main goals of the study on cross-cultural helping behavior?

  Is helping strangers a characteristic
• Helping strangers varies across different cultures
• Order the four community variables studied in the experiment.

  1️⃣ Population size

  2️⃣ Wealth of the city

  3️⃣ Collectivism

  4️⃣ Pace of life
• The study used a field experiment with standardized measures in 23 large cities across different countries.
• One of the experimental conditions involved a victim dropping a pen
• What was the dependent variable in the study on helping behavior?

  Helping rate
• All experimenters in the study were college-aged and dressed similarly to ensure standardization.
• The overall helping rate ranged from 93% in Rio de Janeiro to 40% in Malaysia
• In which country were simpatia values highest?

  Brazil
• There are significant cross-cultural variations in helping behavior, as demonstrated by the study.
• Helping across cultures is negatively related to a country's economic productivity
• What is considered a cross-culturally meaningful characteristic of a place?

  Helping strangers