The Altruism Question

The Altruism Question PDF Author: Charles Daniel Batson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780805802450
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Book Description
Are our efforts to help others ever driven solely by altruistic motivation, or is our ultimate goal always some form of self- benefit (egoistic motivation)? This volume reports the development of an empirically-testable theory of altruistic motivation and a series of experiments designed to test that theory. It sets the issue of egoism versus altruism in its larger historical and philosophical context, and brings diverse experiments into a single, integrated argument. Readers will find that this book provides a solid base of information from which questions surrounding the existence of altruistic motivation can be further investigated.