Helping

E-learning for social psych has been about helping. How altruistic can people be? I find it interesting that there are ways to increase helping as stated in my textbook such as alerting people to the bystander effect which is when people do not feel a responsibility to help in a group and that inhibits helping. Another way to increase helping is to tell the person that the smallest contribution will do, such as in asking for donations. One can simply say, "Just 10 cents can help a child" and one would be likely to donate more than that just because it seems selfish on your own part. Compared with asking for "$10", asking for 10 cents would result in a more positive response. :) Such is the nature of humans...hahaha

I wonder how far would I actually go to help someone? Or do I even dare to intentionally help someone? Also part of e-learning, I watched the movie, "Pay It Forward" which is about how a young boy comes up with a brilliant idea to "change the world" for his social studies assignment. His idea was to help 3 people and when he had successfully helped them, they were each to help another 3 people and so on. I was inspired by that movie and thought the idea was really novel; simple, yet effective. Actually, not really simple because it requires people to help when it's difficult to but still, it can really change the world, if people do make the effort to help. I think help comes from the heart.

My friend H. made this and gave one to me for Christmas. I think it's cute...:)

 

It's a New Year!

It's the 2nd day of the new year! :) I'm excited for what lies in 2011... I pray that it'll be a year when I can hang on in faith and that it'll be a year that's pleasing to God. Well, that said, next week is e-learning week and when school starts in full swing it's going to be busy again. I know that I've used the words, "busy" and "tired" quite often last year and though true, I think they're rather negative words...so I'll try not to use them so much this year. Maybe more words like, "joyful" and "glad" and "energetic" and "thankful". Hahahaha. :) Today is thanksgiving for the new year and I'm looking forward to hear from people in church later! :D