Consideration and concern for others, as opposed to self-love or egoism, which can be a motivating influence.
Theoretical construct used in applied mathematics to analyze certain situations in which there is an interplay between parties that may have similar, opposed, or mixed interests. In a typical game, decision-making "players," who each have their own goals, try to gain advantage over the other parties by anticipating each other's decisions; the game is finally resolved as a consequence of the players' decisions.
The process of cumulative change over successive generations through which organisms acquire their distinguishing morphological and physiological characteristics.
The interaction of two or more persons or organizations directed toward a common goal which is mutually beneficial. An act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit, i.e., joint action. (From Random House Dictionary Unabridged, 2d ed)
Behaviors associated with the giving of assistance or aid to individuals.
The social process by which something or someone comes to be regarded and treated as an article of trade or commerce.
The informal or formal organization of a group of people based on a network of personal relationships which is influenced by the size and composition, etc., of the group.
The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.
The philosophy or code pertaining to what is ideal in human character and conduct. Also, the field of study dealing with the principles of morality.
The direct struggle between individuals for environmental necessities or for a common goal.
Any behavior caused by or affecting another individual, usually of the same species.
Differential and non-random reproduction of different genotypes, operating to alter the gene frequencies within a population.
Games designed to provide information on hypotheses, policies, procedures, or strategies.
Persons who donate their services.
A vegetative stage in the life cycle of sporozoan protozoa. It is characteristic of members of the phyla APICOMPLEXA and MICROSPORIDIA.
Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.

Participation in breast cancer susceptibility testing protocols: influence of recruitment source, altruism, and family involvement on women's decisions. (1/473)

OBJECTIVES: We offered education, counseling, and family-based BRCA1/2 testing to women at increased risk of breast cancer and assessed (a) their reasons for participating and (b) whether source of recruitment, desire to help research (altruism), and the need to communicate with their affected relative about testing distinguish those who did and those who did not complete each phase of our protocol. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We sent invitations to 403 women who had completed a questionnaire on BRCA1/2 testing, 178 of whom were considered high risk because they had more than one relative on the same side of the family with early-onset breast cancer. RESULTS: Among the 132 high-risk respondents from the mid-Atlantic states (where testing was offered), 36% (n = 47) were interested in counseling. Those who actually attended counseling were more likely to have some college education, a higher perceived risk of breast cancer, and a greater fear of stigma and were less likely to have a daughter than those who did not attend. The reasons for attending that were rated "very important" were to learn about the test (80%), to have the test (43%), and to help research (38%). High-risk women were eligible for testing only if their affected relative was willing to be tested and tested positive. After the session, 83% intended to ask their affected relative to be tested, but only half of the affected relatives actually came for pretest counseling. The proportion of participants who ultimately involved an affected relative was 2.5 times higher among women from a clinical population (25%) than among those from a registry population (10%); in this latter population, an altruistic desire to help research was a greater motivator for participation than interest in being tested. CONCLUSIONS: Source of recruitment influences both motivations to attend education and counseling and actual testing behavior. These results have implications for interpretation of findings from studies in research settings as well as for informed consent and decision-making in the context of family-based testing.  (+info)

Cost-effectiveness analysis of humanitarian relief interventions: visceral leishmaniasis treatment in the Sudan. (2/473)

Spending by aid agencies on emergencies has quadrupled over the last decade, to over US$6 billion. To date, cost-effectiveness has seldom been considered in the prioritization and evaluation of emergency interventions. The sheer volume of resources spent on humanitarian aid and the chronicity of many humanitarian interventions call for more attention to be paid to the issue of 'value for money'. In this paper we present data from a major humanitarian crisis, an epidemic of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in war-torn Sudan. The special circumstances provided us, in retrospect, with unusually accurate data on excess mortality, costs of the intervention and its effects, thus allowing us to express cost-effectiveness as the cost per Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) averted. The cost-effectiveness ratio, of US$18.40 per DALY (uncertainty range between US$13.53 and US$27.63), places the treatment of VL in Sudan among health interventions considered 'very good value for money' (interventions of less than US$25 per DALY). We discuss the usefulness of this analysis to the internal management of the VL programme, the procurement of funds for the programme, and more generally, to priority setting in humanitarian relief interventions. We feel that in evaluations of emergency interventions attempts could be made more often to perform cost-effectiveness analyses, including the use of DALYs, provided that the outcomes of these analyses are seen in the broad context of the emergency situation and its consequences on the affected population. This paper provides a first contribution to what is hoped to become an international database of cost-effectiveness studies of health interventions during relief operations, which use a comparable measure of health outcome such as the DALY.  (+info)

Challenge of Goodness II: new humanitarian technology, developed in croatia and bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991-1995, and applied and evaluated in Kosovo 1999. (3/473)

This paper presents improvements of the humanitarian proposals of the Challenge of Goodness project published earlier (1). In 1999 Kosovo crisis, these proposals were checked in practice. The priority was again on the practical intervention - helping people directly - to prevent, stop, and ease suffering. Kosovo experience also prompted us to modify the concept of the Challenge of Goodness. It should include research and education (1. redefinition of health, 2. confronting genocide, 3. university studies and education, and 4. collecting experience); evaluation (1. Red Cross forum, 2. organization and technology assessment, 3. Open Hand - Experience of Good People); activities in different stages of war or conflict in: 1. prevention (right to a home, Hate Watch, early warning), 2. duration (refugee camps, prisoners-of-war camps, global hospital, minorities), 3. end of conflict (planned, organized, and evaluated protection), 4. post conflict (remaini ng and abandoned populations, prisoners of war and missing persons, civilian participation, return, and renewal). Effectiveness of humanitarian intervention may be performed by politicians, soldiers, humanitarian workers, and volunteers, but the responsibility lies on science. Science must objectively collect data, develop hypotheses, check them in practice, allow education, and be the force of good, upon which everybody can rely. Never since the World War II has anybody in Europe suffered in war and conflict so much as peoples in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. We should search for the meaning of their suffering, and develop new knowledge and technology of peace.  (+info)

Lessons on humanitarian assistance. (4/473)

Conflict almost completely destroyed Rwanda's infrastructure in 1994. Natural disasters, as well as disasters caused by humans, have severely challenged humanitarian aid available within the country. In this study, we have analysed the experiences of nongovernmental organizations since the summer of 1994 to evaluate how these difficulties may be overcome. One of the problems identified has been restrictions on the ability to introduce effective health planning due to the poor quality of available local information. The implementation of effective plans that show due consideration to the environment and society is clearly necessary. Effective monitoring and detailed observation are identified as being essential to the continuity of existing humanitarian assistance.  (+info)

Ancient Chinese medical ethics and the four principles of biomedical ethics. (5/473)

The four principles approach to biomedical ethics (4PBE) has, since the 1970s, been increasingly developed as a universal bioethics method. Despite its wide acceptance and popularity, the 4PBE has received many challenges to its cross-cultural plausibility. This paper first specifies the principles and characteristics of ancient Chinese medical ethics (ACME), then makes a comparison between ACME and the 4PBE with a view to testing out the 4PBE's cross-cultural plausibility when applied to one particular but very extensive and prominent cultural context. The result shows that the concepts of respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice are clearly identifiable in ACME. Yet, being influenced by certain socio-cultural factors, those applying the 4PBE in Chinese society may tend to adopt a "beneficence-oriented", rather than an "autonomy-oriented" approach, which, in general, is dissimilar to the practice of contemporary Western bioethics, where "autonomy often triumphs".  (+info)

Photographic memory, money, and liposuction: survey of medical students' wish lists. (6/473)

OBJECTIVES: To examine whether medical students made fewer altruistic wishes and more money oriented wishes in later years of the medical course than students in earlier years. DESIGN: Anonymous questionnaire survey. SETTING: Auckland University School of Medicine. PARTICIPANTS: 520 medical students from 6 years of the course responded to the questionnaire item "If you had three wishes what would you wish for?" MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Proportion of wishes in various categories. RESULTS: The three most popular categories of wishes were happiness (34% of students), money (32%), and altruistic wishes (31%). Rates of altruistic wishes (odds ratio=1.05, 95% confidence interval 0.94 to 1.18; P=0.36) and wishes for money (odds ratio=0.96, 0.86 to 1.08; P=0.52) did not vary over the years of the course. Female medical students were more likely than males to make altruistic wishes (36% v 26%; chi(2)=5.68, P=0. 02), intimacy wishes (25% v 18%; chi(2)=3.74, P=0.05), and happiness wishes (42% v 26%; chi(2)=18.82, P=0.0001). Men were more likely than women to make sexual wishes (5% v 0.8%; chi(2)=7.34, P=0.01). CONCLUSIONS: We found no evidence that students were less altruistic and more money oriented in the later years of the medical course.  (+info)

Altruism, blood donation and public policy: a reply to Keown. (7/473)

This is a continuation of and a development of a debate between John Keown and me. The issue discussed is whether, in Britain, an unpaid system of blood donation promotes and is justified by its promotion of altruism. Doubt is cast on the notions that public policies can, and, if they can, that they should, be aimed at the promotion and expression of altruism rather than of self-interest, especially that of a mercenary sort. Reflections upon President Kennedy's proposition, introduced into the debate by Keown, that we should ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country is pivotal to this casting of doubt. A case is made for suggesting that advocacy along the lines which Keown presents of an exclusive reliance on a voluntary, unpaid system of blood donation encourages inappropriate attitudes towards the provision of health care. Perhaps, it is suggested, and the suggestion represents, on my part, a change of mind as a consequence of the debate, a dual system of blood provision might be preferable.  (+info)

Cooperation through image scoring in humans. (8/473)

The "tragedy of the commons," that is, the selfish exploitation of resources in the public domain, is a reason for many of our everyday social conflicts. However, humans are often more helpful to others than evolutionary theory would predict, unless indirect reciprocity takes place and is based on image scoring (which reflects the way an individual is viewed by a group), as recently shown by game theorists. We tested this idea under conditions that control for confounding factors. Donations were more frequent to receivers who had been generous to others in earlier interactions. This shows that image scoring promotes cooperative behavior in situations where direct reciprocity is unlikely.  (+info)

Altruism allows doing for others as one would be done by. Unlike reaction formation, which also gives to the object what the self desires, altruism leaves the self at least partly gratified. Unlike reaction formation, altruism tempers asceticism with pleasure. Unlike passive aggression and martyrdom, altruism allows the object to feel blessed and not afflicted. Altruism attracts people to the user; martyrdom repels them even as it holds them close in chains.. *: Altruism is a behaviour of an individual that benefits another at its own expense....She decided to investigate what motivates ants to undertake these dangerous missions, where they risk getting trapped themselves or, worse, eaten by predatory antlion larvae, which dig pits and lurk, semi-concealed, at the bottom with their jaws wide open. Such apparently selfless rescue behaviour is seen by many as one of the purest forms of altruism....Being nice to relatives is not pure altruism because they share your genes so, by helping them, you ...
An act of altruism confers a fitness advantage on others, which is strong altruism if the actor incurs a net fitness cost, and otherwise weak altruism [1,2]. The conferred advantage expresses a transferral of fitness from altruist to beneficiary, although the magnitude of the altruists loss may differ from the magnitude of the beneficiarys gain. A parasitic act involves a costly transferral of fitness by the donor to a beneficiary, just as in strong altruism, with the crucial difference that the actor is the beneficiary and not the donor. The role of population structure in sustaining these net-cost transferrals of fitness depends entirely on whether the individual driving the interaction is the donor or the beneficiary. Strongly altruistic acts of fitness transferral from donor to beneficiary can only be sustained by assorting mechanisms that cause the benefits of altruism to be visited disproportionately on other altruists or its costs to be cancelled by other indirect benefits [3-6]. In ...
Inclusive fitness theory, also known as kin selection theory, describes when a trait will be favoured by natural selection [1]. Applied to altruistic traits, inclusive fitness theory explains that an altruist gene is selected for if it is altruistic (assists another at a cost to itself) towards relatives when the cost of altruism is less than its benefit diluted by the chance that the beneficiary does not have the altruist gene [1]. In its more general form, inclusive fitness theory holds that any gene that directs a net benefit towards other copies of itself will be favoured by selection, even if the altruistic and beneficiary genes do not share common descent [1-7]. Altruist genes can, with varying degrees of reliability, identify carriers of the altruism gene in nature in three ways: (i) by recognizing kin, who are likely to share the altruist gene, (ii) in viscous populations, where surrounding organisms are often related, and (iii) by directly sensing the presence of the altruist gene ...
Extraordinary acts of altruism towards strangers represent puzzling phenomena not easily explained by dominant biological models of altruism, such as kin selection and reciprocity1-3. These theories stipulate that genetically or socially close others should be the beneficiaries of costly generosity4,5. Extraordinary altruists exhibit increased empathic sensitivity and a fast, intuitive decision-making style6,7, but no clear explanation yet exists for the most perplexing feature of these altruists, which is that they incur significant risks to benefit strangers5. Here, we considered two related proximal mechanisms-social discounting (valuational) and social distancing (perceptual)-that have been proposed to explain why costly help is preferentially given to close others. We hypothesized that variations in one or both mechanisms drive costly altruism towards distant others. We show that extraordinary altruists exhibit reduced social discounting, with altruists discounting the subjective value of outcomes
Eric Gibson, the editor of the Leisure & Arts page of The Wall Street Journal, once wrote that Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. I do agree with this statement but, from my point of view, altruism is much more than that. It is to help a stranger in need even at the expense of your own well-being. A true act of greatness! Altruism, unfortunately, can neither be learnt nor taught, but rather stems directly from the individuals heart. To make it even simpler, altruism is a behavior that opposes egoism, and is generally understood to be an act that benefits others at a personal cost. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines altruism as feelings and behavior that show a desire to help other people and a lack of selfishness. Coined in the late eighteen hundreds by French sociologist Auguste Comte, the term refers to those social acts that are an expression of an unselfish desire to live for others (Comte, as cited in Batson and Shaw, 1991).. I just read on the digital edition of the ...
Evolved true altruistic behavior among non-relatives in non-social animals. What I mean by true altruistic behavior is the observation of an individual sacrificing its reproductive output for the benefit of individuals to which it is either unrelated or from whom it does not expect to receive return benefits. In this true altruism your genes give benefits to others and get nothing back, and this shouldnt evolve under natural selection. And, indeed, we dont see such altruism in nature. There are reports that vampire bats regurgitate blood to other individuals in the colony to whom theyre unrelated, but those need confirmation, and there may also be reciprocal altruism, so that individuals regurgitate blood to those from whom, one day, they expect a return meal. Such cooperation can evolve by normal natural selection. [bold added ...
Agents exhibit pure intergenerational altruism if they care not just about the consumption utility experienced by future generations, but about their total wellbeing. If all generations are altruistic, each generations wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of its descendants. Thus pure intergenerational altruism causes generations preferences to be interdependent. While existing models study the relationship between pure intergenerational altruism and conventional time preferences, they assume that altruistic preferences are homogeneous across society. In effect, agents impose their own preferences on future generations, whether they share them or not. By contrast, we study pure intergenerational altruism when agents preferences are heterogeneous and fully non-paternalistic, i.e. they evaluate the wellbeing of future agents according to their own sovereign intergenerational preferences. We demonstrate that homogeneous models of intergenerational altruism over (under) estimate the weight an agent ...
Kinship selection - our favoring of relatives or those most like us - is a fundamental part of evolutionary theory. It is best understood by considering altruistic behavior, which here means self-sacrifice behavior performed of the benefit of others. If I exhibit altruistic behavior for my offspring - be they chicks or children - then these offspring are more likely to survive and breed. In this way, my altruistic behavior has increased the chances of my genes being carried on to my descendants - which is all that evolution cares about. If I dont exhibit altruistic behavior and just focus on my own needs, I may leave my offspring more vulnerable, and hence less likely to survive. In this way, altruistic behavior, or better, the genes for altruistic behavior, are passed on and give those individuals who demonstrate it a competitive advantage over others. This idea is also true for my siblings and my cousins, who, after all, share some, or a lot, of my DNA. A great example of this are the ...
Posted By Rebecca White on Nov 21, 2013. A Seton Hall alum who graduated in 2001 is releasing a book, Motivation, Altruism, Personality and Social Psychology: The Coming Age of Altruism, on Dec. 4.. Dr. Michael Babula, MBA, Ph.D. and researcher, said he was inspired by some of his experiences at Seton Hall that led to an interest in altruism. Two specific events at Seton Hall, Babula said, had a profound impact on his studies of altruism. One was when professor Richard Hunter organized a trip to Poland to visit Auschwitz, where Babula was quite moved. The other was after the attacks on Sept. 11, where the response of students was overwhelming. Babula was intrigued by the actions of people that moved beyond self-interest because psychology typically teaches that people are driven by self-interest and arent as interested in helping others.. I had opportunities [at Seton Hall] where I started questioning where peoples higher motivations were, Babula said. I very much enjoyed my time ...
Parochial altruism is manifested in the most violent of conflicts. Although it makes evolutionary sense for kin, many non-kin groups also behave parochially altruistically in response to threat from out-groups. It is possible that such non-kin groups share a sense of fictive kinship which encourages them to behave parochially altruistically for each others benefit. Our findings show that individuals not directly involved in a conflict approved of parochial altruism enacted by an in-group against an out-group more when the out-group posed a threat to the in-group; however, this effect was greater when the in-group members expressed fictive kinship by addressing each other using kinship metaphors such as brothers. Furthermore, although males approved of parochial altruism more than females, as the male warrior hypothesis would suggest, the effects of threat and kinship metaphor on approval of parochial altruism applied to both genders. These findings were replicated in an honour (Lebanon) and ...
In 1971 Robert Trivers[18] introduced his reciprocal altruism theory to explain the evolution of helping at the nest of an unrelated breeding pair of birds. He argued that an individual might act as a helper if there was a high probabilistic expectation of being helped by the recipients at some later date. If, however, the recipients did not reciprocate when it was possible to do so, the altruistic interaction with these recipients would be permanently terminated. But if the recipients did not cheat then the reciprocal altruism would continue indefinitely to both parties advantage.[19] This model was considered by many (e.g. West-Eberhard[20] and Dawkins[21]) to be evolutionarily unstable because it is prone to invasion by cheats for the same reason that cooperative hunting can be invaded and replaced by cheats. However, Trivers did make reference to the Prisoners Dilemma Game which, 10 years later, would restore interest in Trivers reciprocal altruism theory, but under the title of ...
In October, I had the honor of participating in a public discussion at Princeton University with philosopher Peter Singer, Professor of Ethics and author of The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Yale University Press).. Effective altruism, writes Peter Singer, is based on a very simple idea: we should do the most good we can. […] Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can.. He rightly points out that Philanthropy is a very large industry, receiving a total of approximately $300 billion a year in the United States alone, but that most of that huge amount is given on the basis of emotional responses to images of the people, animals, or forests that the charity is helping.. Singer states, Effective altruism seeks to change that by providing incentives for charities to demonstrate their ...
Altruism (also called the ethic of altruism, moralistic altruism, and ethical altruism) is an ethical doctrine that holds that individuals have a moral obligation to help, serve, or benefit others, if necessary, at the sacrifice of self interest. An action is morally right if the consequences of that action are more favorable than unfavorable to everyone except the ...
My dear friend Matt Leathwood sent me this response to my Selfish Altruism post:. Does anyone do anything for free? Doing something for someone else makes most of us feel good about ourselves….. The pay off is the apparent altruism. Its the true sign of goodness when we do things for other people without the bells and whistles of praise…. Silent givers are indeed kings amongst men.. Touche, Matt! Whats interesting is the role habit plays in all this as well. If we get on a roll of being altruistic, perhaps it becomes our default and we can, without ego, make that our lifes preset.. But more so than FREE, like Matt says, its about doing good because its good, not because you will be praised for it. We can all do a lot worse than feeling good about doing good.. If praise for altruism makes altruism your default setting, well all take it over the alternative.. P.s. If you ever have a thought, critique, idea, or contribution, after reading my posts - hit reply! Hell, I might even share ...
Kinship, altruism and selfishness are interactions in populations. Altruism evolves in related individuals where members sacrifice for the sake of species.
A/51/172 E/1996/77 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Fifty-first session Substantive session of 1996 Item 21 (a) of the preliminary Item 5 of the provisional list* agenda** STRENGTHENING OF THE COORDINATION OF SOCIAL, HUMANITARIAN AND HUMANITARIAN AND DISASTER RELIEF HUMAN RIGHTS QUESTIONS: ASSISTANCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS, REPORTS OF SUBSIDIARY INCLUDING SPECIAL ECONOMIC BODIES, CONFERENCES AND ASSISTANCE: STRENGTHENING OF THE RELATED QUESTIONS COORDINATION OF EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE OF THE ** E/1996/100. UNITED NATIONS * A/51/50. Report of the Secretary-General CONTENTS Paragraphs Page I. INTRODUCTION ..................................... 1 - 4 3 II. THE CONTEXT OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE ........... 5 - 20 4 III. FOLLOW-UP TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1995/56: REVIEW OF UNITED NATIONS CAPACITY TO RESPOND TO HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES .......................21 - 62 7 A. Follow-up by United Nations organizations to resolution 1995/56 ...
The steroid hormone testosterone is widely associated with negative behavioral effects, such as aggression or dominance. However, recent studies applying economic exchange tasks revealed conflicting results. While some point to a prosocial effect of testosterone by increasing altruistic behavior, others report that testosterone promotes antisocial tendencies. Taking into account additional factors such as parochial altruism (i.e., ingroup favoritism and outgroup hostility) might help to explain this contradiction. First evidence for a link between testosterone and parochial altruism comes from recently reported data of male soccer fans playing the ultimatum game. In this study high levels of endogenous testosterone predicted increased altruistic punishment during outgroup interactions and at the same time heightened ingroup generosity. Here, we report findings of another experimental task, the prisoners dilemma, applied in the same context to examine the role of testosterone on parochial tendencies in
Humans are unusually cooperative and prosocial, sharing resources with kin and non-kin others. At the same time, they engage in violent intergroup conflict and discriminate against members of other groups. How can we explain this apparent inconsistency? Building on Darwin (Darwin, 1871), it has been proposed that self-sacrificing prosociality toward the in-group and hostility toward the out-group may have co-evolved (Choi & Bowles, 2007; García & van den Bergh, 2011). Research on so-called parochial altruism, i.e., the motivation to benefit in-group members at personal cost, while not benefitting or even harming out-group members, recently received much attention in psychology and beyond (for reviews see, De Dreu, Balliet, & Halevy, 2014; Rusch, 2014; Yamagishi & Mifune, 2016). Empirical studies aiming to support the parochial altruism hypothesis yielded mixed results, though. For instance, whereas some studies provided support for the parochial altruism hypothesis (e.g., Abbink, Brandts, Herrmann, &
So, granted that this is a quite artificial situation, and that I am no expert in the field, what this paper does is to establish inter-group selection as plausible and quantifiable mechanism in accounting for trait-based altruism in the form of warrior behavior and sacrifice. The empirical boundaries seem plausible, while some of the mathematical simplifications seem less so (in this model, each conflict results in extermination of one group and doubling of the other, for instance. On the other hand, all non-altruists get to survive if their group wins a war, while altruist warriors die with 20% probability). Specifically, the right-ward parts of the curves indicate that given realistic rates of death (delta) from conflict, altruism could be selected for despite substantial costs (c) and modest group benefits (L). There are many other possible rationales for selection of in-group altruism traits, so this setting of warfare should not be seen as exhaustive ...
So, granted that this is a quite artificial situation, and that I am no expert in the field, what this paper does is to establish inter-group selection as plausible and quantifiable mechanism in accounting for trait-based altruism in the form of warrior behavior and sacrifice. The empirical boundaries seem plausible, while some of the mathematical simplifications seem less so (in this model, each conflict results in extermination of one group and doubling of the other, for instance. On the other hand, all non-altruists get to survive if their group wins a war, while altruist warriors die with 20% probability). Specifically, the right-ward parts of the curves indicate that given realistic rates of death (delta) from conflict, altruism could be selected for despite substantial costs (c) and modest group benefits (L). There are many other possible rationales for selection of in-group altruism traits, so this setting of warfare should not be seen as exhaustive ...
While science has made great strides in treating pathologies of the human mind, far less research exists to date on positive qualities of the human mind including compassion, altruism and empathy. Yet these prosocial traits are innate to us and lie at the very centerpiece of our common humanity. Our capacity to feel compassion has ensured the survival and thriving of our species over millennia. For this reason, the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine was founded in 2008 with the explicit goal of promoting, supporting, and conducting rigorous scientific studies of compassion and altruistic behavior. Founded and directed by Dr. James Doty, Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, CCARE is established within the Department of Neurosurgery. To date, CCARE has collaborated with a number of prominent neuroscientists, behavioral scientists, geneticists and biomedical researchers to closely examine the physiological and psychological ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Self-recognition, color signals, and cycles of greenbeard mutualism and altruism. AU - Sinervo, Barry. AU - Chaine, Alexis. AU - Clobert, Jean. AU - Calsbeek, Ryan. AU - Hazard, Lisa. AU - Lancaster, Lesley. AU - McAdam, Andrew G.. AU - Alonzo, Suzanne. AU - Corrigan, Gwynne. AU - Hochberg, Michael E.. PY - 2006/5/9. Y1 - 2006/5/9. N2 - Altruism presents a challenge to evolutionary theory because selection should favor selfish over caring strategies. Green beard altruism resolves this paradox by allowing cooperators to identify individuals carrying similar alleles producing a form of genic selection. In side-blotched lizards, genetically similar but unrelated blue male morphs settle on adjacent territories and cooperate. Here we show that payoffs of cooperation depend on asymmetric costs of orange neighbors. One blue male experiences low fitness and buffers his unrelated partner from aggressive orange males despite the potential benefits of defection. We show that recognition ...
In psychological research on altruism, studies often observe altruism as demonstrated through prosocial behaviors such as helping, comforting, sharing, cooperation, philanthropy, and community service.[25] Research has found that people are most likely to help if they recognize that a person is in need and feel personal responsibility for reducing the persons distress. Research also suggests that the number of bystanders witnessing distress or suffering affects the likelihood of helping (the Bystander effect). Greater numbers of bystanders decrease individual feelings of responsibility.[23][29] However, a witness with a high level of empathic concern is likely to assume personal responsibility entirely regardless of the number of bystanders.[23] A feeling of personal responsibility or - moral norm - has also strongly been associated with other pro-social behaviors such as charitable giving.[30]. Many studies have observed the effects of volunteerism (as a form of altruism) on happiness and ...
The humanitarian crisis in northern Syria is on the verge of becoming a COVID-19 catastrophe. A decade of conflict has left the healthcare system in ruins-and millions of displaced people in Idlib province were already suffering due to a lack of shelter and sanitation. This policy briefing delves into roots of the humanitarian crisis in Idlib, details the current capacity of the exhausted healthcare system amid the ongoing conflict, and examines what these constraints mean for mounting a response to the spread of the coronavirus. ...
Animals learn altruism for many reasons, but all of them derive from the success of their continued existence, either as individuals or as a group. Surrounding oneself by friends is a more univironmentally stable act than being surrounded by enemies. Social animals devise ways of instilling and enforcing group loyalty, with religion, the military, and football being familiar examples. Survival of the individual microcosm is highly dependent on survival of the group microcosm. Generally, what works best for the group works best for the individual. Thus, it is a mistake to consider the individual as a solitary microcosm without considering all the interactions with others that formed its propensity to act. Dawkins wraps these propensities in little bundles call genes, which as you suggested, cannot be solely responsible for altruism. A common mistake in understanding altruism is to select the wrong microcosm. For instance, a worker bee sacrifices its life for the colony by stinging an intruder. ...
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English examples for altruism - This term is sometimes associated with other terms such as true altruism. In these cases most individuals far from showing altruism actually take money. This altruism does not appear to be limited to their own species.
Background: Psychological factors play an important role in well-being of patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) as well as increasing risk of CVD in normal population. Because of the lack of research on comparing emotion regulation, psychological capital and altruism between CVD patients and healthy population, the aim of this study was to assess these factors in a case-control study. Methods: The 100 non-randomly included participants were categorized into two groups: 50 patients with CVD with age range of 30-60, and 50 paired-matched healthy persons. Three instruments of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ-P), Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) and Altruistic Behavior Scale were used. Data was analyzed using the paired and independent t-test statistical analysis. Findings: Significant differences were seen between case and control groups with respect to their cognitive emotion regulation (t=-2.27; p,0.025), psychological capital (t=9.03; p,0.001) and altruism (t=7.52; ...
Downloadable! We examine subjects behavior in sender-receiver games where there are gains from trade and alignment of interests in one of the two states. We elicit subjects beliefs, risk and other-regarding preferences. Our design also allows us to examine the behavior of subjects in both roles, to determine whether the behavior in one role is the best response to the subjects own behavior in the other role. The results of the experiment indicate that 60 percent of senders adopt deceptive strategies by sending favorable message when the true state of the nature is unfavorable. Nevertheless, 67 percent of receivers invest conditional upon a favorable message. The investing behavior of receivers cannot be explained by risk preferences or as a best response to subjects own behavior in the senders role. However, it can be rationalized by accounting for elicited beliefs and other-regarding preferences. Finally, the honest behavior of some senders can be explained by other-regarding preferences. Thus we
Why would a person or animal choose to commit a seemingly selfless act that is disadvantageous to their own survival? Biological altruism is defined as the behavioral tendency of organisms to promote the survival of another organism (usually of the...
Funder: Mellon Foundation This grant supports teaching and research activities related to refugees and humanitarian emergencies. Through this grant and others, ISIM offers a Certificate in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies at the Masters level. Georgetown students take six courses related to humanitarian issues, forced migration, human rights and conflict prevention and resolution. This grant also […]
Why do people commonly go out of their way to do something nice for another person, even when it comes at a cost to themselves-and how could such altruistic behavior have evolved? The answer may not just be in our genes, but also in our microbes. © Lewin-Epstein et al. Nature Communications(Left) The payoff matrix and
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One of the problems with being an avowed altruist is that its hard to talk about it with other people without coming across like youre trying to claim youre better than them.. One of the problems with being an aspiring effective altruist is that its hard to talk about it with other people without coming across like youre trying to claim youre better than everyone else, including other avowed altruists, and definitely including non-altruistic plebes.. (This, I think, is something of a barrier to effective altruism becoming a more popular thing, and Id like to see it change.). But if I cant write about this in the locus of the interval between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I cant write about it at all, and that would be really quite sad for me, so here goes.. ...
This brief presents key findings from a Kaiser Family Foundation review and analysis of the policy and financing landscape where U.S. humanitarian assistance and global health assistance meet. It also summarizes a July 2013 roundtable discussion convened by the Foundation focusing on opportunities, challenges, and potential next steps for more effective coordination between humanitarian assistance and global health programs.
Altruism isnt Generosity Tibor R. Machan A big error has haunted humanity for centuries: its the equivocation between generosity and altruism. The former is a virtue any decent human being will practice: it asks of one to reach out to deserving others in times of dire need. The latter is a policy of devoting oneself…
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Theres an interesting post over at the BBC today that asks a deceptively simple question; why do people help each other?. The question is key for any business working in social media, collaboration technology or sharing economy. And so is the answer.. The BBC post explains the selfish gene theory of altruism - our minds are wired to get a chemical buzz out of helping people who share the same genes as us (or at least appear to share those genes through similar physical traits); particularly close kin. If you can help a number of people who collectively appear to have more of your genetic material in them than you do as an individual, then youll help even if it costs you. From a genes-eye perspective, laying down your life for a number (but not one) of immediate kin is enlightened self-interest, not selfless altruism - since it increases the overall inclusive fitness (reproductive chances) of your shared genes. Theres even an equation (Hamiltons Rule) to predict when people will (and ...
New York, 14 November 2016 - The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomes Pfizers decision to lower the price of its pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) for children caught in humanitarian emergencies. For seven years, MSF urged Pfizer and GSK - the only two manufacturers producing the pneumonia vaccine - to offer the lowest global price to humanitarian organisations, but they refused until September, when GSK announced that it was finally reducing the price of its pneumonia vaccine for humanitarian situations. Now with its announcement on Friday, Pfizer is following GSKs footsteps.. Its good to see that Pfizer is now finally reducing the price of its life-saving vaccine for children in emergencies, says Dr Joanne Liu, MSFs international president. With Pfizer and GSKs price reductions, humanitarian organisations will be better able to protect children against this deadly disease.. Pneumonia is the leading cause ...
Here are just a couple examples of dogs displaying altruistic behavior. There are many documented cases of chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins and dogs performing altruistic acts. Many religious people state that altruism only exists in humans and is evidence that we are created by a god, which is simply not true. Regardless, these are amazing stories. Particularly the second one. The dog tries to pull the injured dog off the highway and instead of using its teeth, it uses its paws, so as to
Downloadable! This paper analyzes the way in which men and women are expected to behave differently in an experimental situation. To do so, we concentrate on a single topic: altruism. Since the dictator game provides the most suitable design for studying altruism and generosity in the lab setting, we use a modified version to study the beliefs involved in the game. Our results are substantial: men and women are expected to behave differently and both believe that women are more generous. These two premises affect their behavior.
Wietse Tol and colleagues lay out a a consensus-based research agenda for mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings.
The argument that altruism in sterile ants which work for the benefit of their community can be explained by kin selection has been overturned by mathematical analysis by Martin Nowak, author of Evolutionary Dynamics, in a paper published in Nature. Instead, altruism turns out to be a thoroughly naturally selected affair. Read more here ...
Lets tackle this from another angle and change our perspective - consider the situation from the level of individual cells. A multicellular organism such as a human is composed of billions of cells that are born and die, most of which are non-reproductive. So we may easily consider eusocial species to operate as a super-organism, as the single organism and the single insect colony are largely similar. Kin selection operates within my body just as it does clearly in the insect colony. If an animal cannot physically reproduce, how is it any different from a non-reproductive cell within my body? Each, colony and human, operates as the basic unit of sexual reproduction. E.O. Wilson earlier made this same comparison. Are my body cells therefore altruistic, just like the soldier termite? I think so. This analogy allows me to make the following proposition: altruism as an end in itself is something that primarily occurs within the basic unit of sexual reproduction, whereas altruism as a means to ...
In solving major world problems, altruism and compassion can help. Altruism is a fundamental mental state involving a specific kind of intention and motivation.
In his quest to understand altruism, Price inevitably dissected such complex and timeless concepts as self-sacrifice and kindness, and eventually became so vexed by the selfish reasoning for kindness embedded in his own mathematical theory of altruism that he set out to prove the theory wrong by committing a seemingly endless number of random acts of kindness to complete strangers. He spent the latter part of his life helping alcoholics and the homeless, often inviting them to live in his home and, though he had most of his belongings stolen, he went undeterred until he was forced to move out of his house due to a construction issue. Unable to help the homeless any longer, he went into a deep depression. On January 6, 1975, Price committed suicide using a pair of nail scissors to cut his own carotid artery.. ...
Altruism vs. Aggression - Is It in Our DNA?. Ive been thinking a lot about altruism lately. With everything going on in the world, its hard not to. Hurricane Irene stormed into our lives right before Labor Day and wiped out many communities near me. No one expected a hurricane to inflict such punishment on little villages in the Catskill Mountains of New York but thats what happened.. At our house, we tried to tough it out but we surrendered as the winds picked up and we realized that way too many trees were leaning longingly toward our roof. We packed up four cats and took shelter in a Holiday Inn about fifteen minutes away. What we found there was a 21st century Noahs Ark. Dogs grinned at us from balconies on the second floor. Cats peered out of windows into the courtyard. And the people, local evacuees mingled with shellshocked refugees from Long Island, Staten Island and Brooklyn, huddled together sharing whatever updates we had. And we shared what we had.. Phyllis, whose home was ...
This thesis examines the significance of sociobiology within Wesleyan ethics. In addition to investigating how sociobiological altruism connects to Wesleyan holiness, it argues that John Wesley capitalized on the biological and environmental constraints on human action, creating a particular setting that nurtured altruism in his followers through the cultivation of holiness. Of the main chapters, Chapter 2 helps the reader understand basic and current sociobiological explanations of altruistic behavior-a behavior that has been a stumbling block for evolutionary theorists who have attempted, unsuccessfully, to explain why or how it exists. To address the presence of altruism among humans, this chapter elucidates kin selection theory, group selection theory (also called multilevel selection theory), and game theory, seeking to provide clarification of current research within the field of sociobiology. Chapter 3 offers a critique of the sociobiological explanations of altruism and examines the ...
Publication date: 2018. Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=zrhm21 Reproductive Health Matters An international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights ISSN: 0968-8080 (Print) 1460-9576 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/zrhm20 The 2018 Inter-agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings: revising the global standards Angel M. Foster, Dabney P. Evans, Melissa Garcia, Sarah Knaster, Sandra Krause, Therese McGinn, Sarah Rich, Meera Shah, Hannah Tappis & Erin Wheeler To cite this article: Angel M. Foster, Dabney P. Evans, Melissa Garcia, Sarah Knaster, Sandra Krause, Therese McGinn, Sarah Rich, Meera Shah, Hannah Tappis & Erin Wheeler (2017) The 2018�Inter-agency�field�manual�on�reproductive�health�in�humanitarian�settings: revising the global standards, Reproductive Health Matters, 25:51, 18-24, DOI: 10.1080/09688080.2017.1403277 To ...
Altruism, the selfless concern for the well-being of others, is a core virtue in many societies and religions. But ever since Darwin wrote about cooperation and altruism, scientists have had a love/hate relationship with these behaviors. Warren Holmes, University of Oregon psychology professor, explores the paradox of cooperative behavior in The Evolution of Cooperation and the Paradox of Altruism. It was the second talk in a UO lecture series celebrating the life and work of Charles Darwin given on Tuesday, Feb. 10 2009.. ...
Very sweet but not altruism - altruism would imply the dog made a conscious choice to foster the kittens. It is in fact rather common for animals that have lost their off-spring (her puppies were adopted) to adopt other young animals, including those of other species (although sometimes they need a little trickery - horse breeders will often wrap an orphan foal in the hide of a mares dead foal to get bonding - however, as soon as the orphan can suckle, this will trigger hormone release that leads to bonding so the hide can be removed soon; and not all mares need the trick, they will accept the foal). Dogs have in fact been used as foster mothers for zoo animals that could not be nursed by their biological mother. Here in Oz we have a german shepherd who fostered a tiger cub, for instance. Cross-species nurturing, in short, is not uncommon, and more due to the loss of own offspring and the need to nurse offspring, ie, having lots of milk left. To call it altruism is anthropomorphic. Actually, ...
Very sweet but not altruism - altruism would imply the dog made a conscious choice to foster the kittens. It is in fact rather common for animals that have lost their off-spring (her puppies were adopted) to adopt other young animals, including those of other species (although sometimes they need a little trickery - horse breeders will often wrap an orphan foal in the hide of a mares dead foal to get bonding - however, as soon as the orphan can suckle, this will trigger hormone release that leads to bonding so the hide can be removed soon; and not all mares need the trick, they will accept the foal). Dogs have in fact been used as foster mothers for zoo animals that could not be nursed by their biological mother. Here in Oz we have a german shepherd who fostered a tiger cub, for instance. Cross-species nurturing, in short, is not uncommon, and more due to the loss of own offspring and the need to nurse offspring, ie, having lots of milk left. To call it altruism is anthropomorphic. Actually, ...
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The French-born Tibetan Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard gave up molecular genetics almost 50 years ago to dedicate himself fully to Buddhist practice. Dubbed the happiest man in the world, hes since authored several books from Shechen Monastery in Nepal, the most recent being Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World, published by Little, Brown and Company in June. In this wide-ranging, 30-minute interview filmed during Ricards most recent visit to New York, contributing editor Joan Duncan Oliver speaks to Ricard about some of the most pressing issues currently facing humanity-climate change, species extinction, and inequality-and how altruism can solve them. -Eds.. ...
Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates some of the factors that may influence altruistic behavior -- the act of helping that is intended to provide aid to someone else with no expectations of getting something in return. Research questions that can be explored using this learning guide include: what are the factors that motivate one person to help another, how costs and rewards, or empathy influence helping and altruism, the impact that cultural norms and roles may have on helping behavior, and whether characteristics of the person needing help influence helping behavior and if so, how. Crosstabulations are used for the analyses.. ...
I came across Effective Altruism in 2015, joining a MeetUp in Berlin, and I immediately felt at home. Talking about improving the world, deeply thinking together which are the causes more close to our heart and which one are the most pressing in our society.. As long as I donated and actively looking for great charities and cool social projects, Effective Altruism movement opened my eyes to look more carefully to what is really effective. Now Im involved in spreading the word in Italy too and getting active and aware of the social entrepreneurship realm.. Heres my profile https://eahub.org/user/stefania even if Im still a beginner I love to aim to become a great philanthropist.. Articles and videos ...
There is no shortage of evidence to suggest that we are fundamentally, and all but irreparably, characterized by selfishness. If reports of consumptive greed and callous disregard for the obvious distress of others does not clinch the point, the representations of science, particularly the portrayals of sociobiology, confirm that impression beyond any reasonable doubt. This emerging discipline endevers to show how altruism is fundamentally unnatural, an aberration that runs directly counter to the natural flow of life.. The Impossibility of Natural Altruism. For modern life sciences, altruism represents an anomaly that elicits drastic reactions.. The Biological Problem of Altruism. From a biological point of view, altruism should not exist. The Darwinian theory of natural selection holds that those organisms survive and reproduce which are best adapted to their environment. They are selected by the natural processes of geography, climate, food supplies, predation, etc. To that extent, any ...
At Inside NGOs recent Food Aid Roundtable, Matthew Nims, acting director of Food for Peace (FFP), spoke about the future of the USAID offices programs. He said something during his presentation that resonated with me: This is an era of conflict.. Last year, it was El Niño. This year, we are witnessing a different kind of international crisis-that of 20 million people at risk of starvation in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria. 2017 has been labeled as having the worst humanitarian crisis since 1945 for its rising number of refugees. Nims also emphasized the ongoing challenge of stabilizing and addressing growing problems in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and Chad before the crisis spreads. However, an enormous funding gap of $4.4 billion for response teams and food supplies only makes matters worse.. During the event, industry experts questioned how implementing partners, or entities that implement programs in line with the goals of larger ...
The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) urges the United Nations (UN) to take action to prevent an imminent humanitarian crisis as a Saudi-led coalition continues to seize ships carrying necessary oil products to the country.
Humanitarian emergencies and infectious diseases have a mutually negative impact on one another. Crisis settings like refugee camps, war zones and communities
Parochial altruism refers to altruism that is directed in a preferential manner towards members of ones own social group.[20] In order to examine this effect, a study examined the outcomes of TP-DG experiments carried out in between two Papua New Guinea indigenous groups. The games had 4 conditions, which included: players A (dictator), B (recipient), and C (observer) all from the same group; only A and B from the same group; only A and C from the same group; only B and C from the same group.[6] Current behavioral theories state that norms are emergent from interactions within groups,[21] and therefore, outsiders dont obey the norm nor benefit from the altruistic behavior the norm enforces. This theory would therefore predict that no punishment will occur in any of the cases except for the ABC treatment condition. However, it was found that punishment was qualitatively similar in all 4 conditions, which suggests that egalitarian sharing norms exist within-groups and also ...
I weighed in on the topic posted, and replied to the question, do altruism & benevolence exist, yes & yes. As I sorted through my mind, I realized, my belief has changed. When did I become an optimist? Before James died, I didnt believe people could change, I never had faith in strangers, believed staunchly in bystander apathy and had begun to work hard to suppress my own instincts to help others. Wow, reflecting on this, I was living a dark, unenlightened path for more reasons then I am willing to delve into here but sad all the same. Then, my life was shattered, everything I believed, all the life lessons learned, everything I had worked for, demolished when James died. Then came the choices no parent wants to ever have to make. The ones that we have all made, second guessed, regretted & wished could have been different. And then, in the midst of the darkness came the light. The kindness of those who I had all but sold out, strangers. Strangers from every corner bursting with compassion, ...
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Category 1: Biological and evolutionary basis of dishonesty. From a quick-and-dirty comparison of the evolutionary basis for symbiotic altruism and the cognitive neuroscience of dishonesty, one might conclude that altruism is to be found almost nowhere in the animal kingdom, whereas dishonesty exists almost everywhere in the human brain. The cases of altruism among that Trivers (1971) describes are few and far between, ranging from symbiotic cleaning between wrasse and grouper to warning calls in birds. In humans, altruism is elicited by rather extreme circumstances such as helping in times of danger and helping the sick, the wounded, or the very young and old (in addition to more commonplace but less costly exchanges of food, tools, and information). By contrast, Abe (2011) reports a widespread array of brain structures important for supporting deception, including the prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, and basal ganglia. Intriguingly, Trivers posits that deception has ...
The Key West Art & Historical Society maintains the culture of the Florida Keys through exhibits and education programs. Read our post, Society Celebrates Fantasy Fest Altruism and the Candidates Behind it.
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Cross-posted to the Enthea site. Griffiths et al. 2017 was published recently; it had some impressive findings. The study looked at psilocybin administration al
If asked at the wars outset in 1939 what was its least likely outcome, Nazi Overlords would have undoubtedly named their own military defeat. Since Hitlers democratic takeover in 1933 Germany had developed the strongest military force the modern world had ever known. Its standing army appeared indomitable. Its
Contrasting Charles Darwins theory of evolution by natural selection, UC Berkeley psychologist, Dacher Keltner and other social scientists are building the case that humans are successful because of our nurturing, altruistic and compassionate traits.. Human beings have survived as a species because we have evolved the capacities to care for those in need and to cooperate, states Keltner, author of Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life.. As Darwin long ago surmised, sympathy is our strongest instinct, he says.. While many studies indicate that bonding and seeking out social connections are intrinsic in a healthier, more meaningful life, the larger question is how these traits actually ensure our survival and enhance our status among our peers? According to UC Berkeley social psychologist Robb Willer, the more generous we are, the more respect and influence we wield.. Regarding a recent study by Willer and his team published in American Sociological Review, he writes: The ...
This was the third call under 3ies Humanitarian Assistance Thematic Window. The first call was for impact evaluation of humanitarian assistance interventions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the second call was for an impact evaluation of the cash versus electronic vouchers pilot programme for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.. While there is considerable evidence of the effectiveness of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) treatment interventions in optimal conditions, there is insufficient and equivocal understanding of how effectiveness varies in crisis and post-crisis conditions. There is also insufficient evidence on the difference in impact of MAM treatment programmes when prevention interventions are also present. The proposal will be for a rigorous impact evaluation of completed, ongoing or planned initiatives that aim to prevent and/or treat MAM in humanitarian situations.. For more information about this call, please read the Request for Qualifications (727.6 KB) This call is ...
Humanitarian Assistance Remains Vital. An estimated 731,000 people remain in crisis and emergency, according to the latest findings from the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSNAU). People belonging to these households require urgent lifesaving humanitarian assistance to help meet immediate food needs, including critical nutrition and health support for those acutely malnourished, particularly children.. A further 2.3 million additional people are classified as stressed, meaning they are struggling to meet their minimum daily food needs. Households belonging to this group remain highly vulnerable to major shocks, such as drought or floods, which could easily push them back into food security crisis.. As a result, lifesaving humanitarian assistance and livelihood support remain vitally important throughout2015 to help food insecure populations meet their immediate food needs, protect livelihoods and build resilience.. Malnutrition Rates Remain High. An estimated ...
Humanitarian Assistance Remains Vital. An estimated 731,000 people remain in crisis and emergency, according to the latest findings from the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSNAU). People belonging to these households require urgent lifesaving humanitarian assistance to help meet immediate food needs, including critical nutrition and health support for those acutely malnourished, particularly children.. A further 2.3 million additional people are classified as stressed, meaning they are struggling to meet their minimum daily food needs. Households belonging to this group remain highly vulnerable to major shocks, such as drought or floods, which could easily push them back into food security crisis.. As a result, lifesaving humanitarian assistance and livelihood support remain vitally important throughout2015 to help food insecure populations meet their immediate food needs, protect livelihoods and build resilience.. Malnutrition Rates Remain High. An estimated ...
ATLANTA - Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, have shown chimpanzees have a significant bias for prosocial behavior. This, the study authors report, is in contrast to previous studies that positioned chimpanzees as reluctant altruists and led to the widely held belief that human altruism evolved in the last six million years only after humans split from apes. The current study findings are available in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to Yerkes researchers Victoria Horner, PhD, Frans de Waal, PhD, and their colleagues, chimpanzees may not have shown prosocial behaviors in other studies because of design issues, such as the complexity of the apparatus used to deliver rewards and the distance between the animals. I have always been skeptical of the previous negative findings and their over-interpretation, says Dr. de Waal. This study confirms the prosocial nature of chimpanzees with a different test, better adapted to the ...
More than 5,000 civilians have been killed and 9,000 injured in the conflict in Yemen over the last three years. Although more than 70% of the population (21 million Yemenis) need emergency aid, the blockade imposed on 6th November 2017 has aggravated an already disastrous humanitarian situation[1], preventing the entry of foodstuffs, medical supplies and humanitarian aid. Seven million people are on the brink of famine. Arnaud Pont, Yemen emergency desk officer at Handicap International (HI), explains the gravity of the situation:
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine http://odihpn.org/magazine/the-humanitarian-consequences-of-violence-in-central-america/ Number 70 October 2017 Special Feature: The Lake Chad Basin: an overlooked crisis? by Humanitarian Practice Network October 2017 The 70th edition of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited with Joe Read, focuses on the humanitarian crisis in Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin. The violence perpetrated by Boko Haram and the counter-insurgency campaign…
While the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East is one of the most devastating of our era according to Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), humanitarian aid approaches its limits. This paper will look into one of those limits: the challenges of addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in humanitarian interventions. First, the development of humanitarian health interventions, and the changing nature and contexts of emergencies are described. Second, the specific con...
Parochial altruism, defined as increased ingroup favoritism and heightened outgroup hostility, is a widespread feature of human societies that affects altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior, particularly in intergroup conflicts. Humans tend to protect fellow group members and fight against outsiders, even at substantial costs for themselves. Testosterone modulates responses to competition and social threat, but its exact role in the context of parochial altruism remains controversial. Here, we investigated how testosterone influences altruistic punishment tendencies in the presence of an intergroup competition. Fifty male soccer fans played an ultimatum game (UG), in which they faced anonymous proposers that could either be a fan of the same soccer team (ingroup) or were fans of other teams (outgroups) that differed in the degree of social distance and enmity to the ingroup. The UG was played in two contexts with varying degrees of intergroup rivalry. Our data show that unfair offers ...
DAKAR February 3, 2020 - The number of people facing a critical lack of food and vital livelihood opportunities in the Central Sahel has spiked in one year due to rising insecurity and climatic shocks. The situation may further deteriorate unless the international community acts now, three United Nations agencies warned today.. Despite an overall satisfactory agricultural production, 3.3 million people need immediate assistance in the Central Sahel, according to the latest Cadre Harmonisé food security analyses, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said. Experts forecast that close to 4.8 million people in the Central Sahel will be at risk of food insecurity during the lean season (June-August 2020) if no appropriate actions are taken urgently.. The unprecedented escalation of humanitarian needs in the Central Sahel is a major factor for the alarming situation that the ...
Results Yemen is water scarce, and repeated airstrikes damaged water systems, risking widespread infection. Since a cholera preparedness and response plan was absent, on detection, the humanitarian cluster system rapidly developed response plans. The initial plans did not prioritise key actions including community-directed WASH to reduce transmission, epidemiological analysis and laboratory monitoring. Coordination was not harmonised across the crisis-focused clusters and epidemic-focused incident management system. The health strategy was crisis focused and was centralised on functional health facilities, underemphasising less accessible areas. As vaccination was not incorporated into preparedness, consensus on its use remained slow. At the second wave peak, key actions including data management, community-directed WASH and oral rehydration and vaccination were scaled-up. ...
Negotiations for access are crucial for the success of humanitarian operations. They also occur in contexts of armed conflict and violence that typically entrench gender identities. Building on the vast research showing that gender affects the conduct and outcome of negotiations, this paper explores gender dynamics in a humanitarian setting. After outlining its methodology and surveying the relevant literature, this paper sketches out the ways 21 practitioners at the International Committee of the Red Cross see gender dynamics affecting their work in the field. These interviews support previous findings on men and womens diverging conceptions of genders impact and relevance, as well as on the cross-cultural consistency of gender dynamics in war. In a context where, unlike in many corporate settings, womens work as humanitarian actors is congruent with prescriptive gender stereotypes, this study shows that they can be perceived as more legitimate because they are thought of as selfless ...
Sure, its better to do an altruistic act for a co-ethnic than a foreigner. But its better in the sense that you lose less if you help a co-ethnic than a foreigner. Your genes dont gain anything in either case. Altruism is adaptive for your close kin. Altruism for your co-ethnics or foreigners is (usually) a strictly lose or lose-more proposition ...
The Australian government formally closed the Manus Regional Processing Centre on 31 October. The MRPC was an offshore immigration detention facility at a naval base on Manus Island in northern Papua New Guinea, which held around 750 people at its last official count. Refugee solidarity groups across Australia have long called for it to close, along with camps in Nauru and elsewhere. But last weeks developments are no cause for celebration.. About 600 male refugees are left on the decommissioned site, which had its water and electricity supplies cut off ten days ago. There have been reports of missionaries with food and other necessities being prevented from accessing the camp, and as many as 20 per cent of the men are thought to require medication for mental health conditions. The UNHCR has described the situation as an unfolding humanitarian emergency.. According to the Australian government, the refugees have been offered accommodation in the town of Lorengau, ten miles away. UN observers ...
The humanitarian situation in Somalia remains fragile, as a result of continued armed conflict, flooding, desert locust infestation and COVID-19. Access to health care, including skilled birth attendance, is limited, and women and girls face serious protection concerns, including gender-based violence. GBV survivors face fear of reprisals, stigmatization and difficulty accessing safe and appropriate services. UNFPA coordinates the GBV sub-cluster as well as the reproductive health working group in Somalia.
EU humanitarian aid focuses on providing food, safe drinking water and sanitation, primary health care, shelter, livelihoods support, protection, and education.. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, EU-funded humanitarian projects in Cameroon are adopting measures to help beneficiaries and staff keep safe. They also continue to provide life-saving assistance to support vulnerable communities.. Actions already focusing on the health sector and providing access to clean water and sanitation are helping taking into account the new needs brought about by COVID-19, in line with the countrys response plan.. The EU also contributed funding in support of the WHOs actions in the country on early detection and response, and on having adequate expertise on the ground.. Immediate humanitarian assistance to refugees remains crucial especially to newly displaced people. However, given the protracted nature of the displacement (especially of CAR refugees), aid efforts are also being directed at improving ...
Increasing Humanitarian Need. The number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in the five aforementioned countries, currently estimated at about 16 million, has increased by about 30 per cent since late 2016. In Somalia, almost half of the total population is food insecure, the UN specialised body reported. Timely humanitarian assistance has averted famine so far but must be sustained. Conditions across the region are expected to further deteriorate in the coming months with the onset of the dry season and an anticipated early start of the lean season, it added.. The food security situation for pastoralists is of particular concern, in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, where animal mortality rates are high and milk production from the surviving animals has declined sharply with negative consequences on food security and nutrition, FAO warned. When we know how critical milk is for the healthy development of children aged under five, and the irreversible damage its lack can create, it is ...
Two videos on the theme of humanitarian intervention have come out recently. Professor Maximilian Forte of Montreal has produced a film: LIBYA: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency unveiling the racism lying behind humanitarian interventionism. Well worth watching and disseminating. This documentary is a taster for his latest book, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATOs…
BRAC, UN Women, and New York Universitys Center on International Cooperation (CIC) recently concluded a study of the demographic and socioeconomic changes induced by the unprecedented reverse (urban-to-rural) migration that took place in Bangladesh following the COVID-19 lockdown. This virtual dialogue will provide an opportunity for the research partners to discuss these and other findings, and identify solutions, with regional and migration experts. Additionally, a keynote address will be delivered by Professor Dr. Gowher Rizvi, International Relation Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.. ...
Look up altruism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Altruism. Look up altruism in ... This can be altruism towards humanity that leads to altruism towards the creator or God. Kabbalah defines God as the force of ... The empathy-altruism hypothesis basically states that psychological altruism does exist and is evoked by the empathic desire to ... The reputational benefits of altruism occur in the future as compared to the immediate costs of altruism in the present. While ...
... an effective altruism online forum Effective Altruism Global, a series of effective altruism conferences 80,000 Hours, an ... MacAskill, William (March 10, 2014). "The history of the term 'effective altruism'". Effective Altruism Forum. Archived from ... EffectiveAltruism.org, an online introduction and resource compilation on effective altruism Centre for Effective Altruism, an ... "The Why and How of Effective Altruism". Singer published The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas ...
The theory of competitive altruism also helps one connect such behavior to the handicap principle. With competitive altruism, ... Altruism as a handicap: the limitations of kin selection and reciprocity. J. Avian Biol. 26 (1): 1-3. Hardy, C. & Van Vugt, M ... Competitive altruism: from reciprocity to the handicap principle. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., B 265: 429-430. McNamara, J., Z. Barta, ... Altruism as a signal - Zahavi's alternative to kin selection and reciprocity. Journal of Avian Biology 30: 109 (Articles with ...
Altruism Effective altruism Virtue signalling Taranto, James (2013-06-14). "Best of the Web Today: Pathological Altruism". Wall ... Oakley defines pathological altruism as "altruism in which attempts to promote the welfare of others instead result in ... altruism The development and underlying brain processes of pathological altruism Synthesis of views on pathological altruism ... of pathological altruism Psychiatric implications of pathological altruism Societal implications of pathological altruism ...
... but using mixed individual and group selection favors altruism. Inclusive fitness Altruism Reciprocal altruism Koinophilia ... Altruism in this sense is different from the philosophical concept of altruism, in which an action would only be called " ... "Altruism , Define Altruism at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved June 4, 2018. de Waal FB (April 2005). "How ... There are other forms of altruism in nature other than risk-taking behavior, such as reciprocal altruism. This biological ...
... examples of Reciprocal Altruism are actually examples of delayed return altruism. The concept of "reciprocal altruism", as ... Altruism (biology) Competitive altruism Enlightened self-interest Evolutionary models of food sharing Gene-centered view of ... The first two conditions are necessary for altruism as such, while the third is distinguishing reciprocal altruism from simple ... This strategy is one type of reciprocal altruism. Vampire bats also display reciprocal altruism, as described by Wilkinson. The ...
In ethical philosophy, altruism (also called the ethic of altruism, moralistic altruism, and ethical altruism) is an ethical ... a genuine utilitarian will inevitably end up practicing altruism or a form of altruism. Effective altruism is a philosophy and ... Self and Others: A Defense of Altruism Philosophical Quarterly 4 (1954): pp 109-110. "Altruism". Ethics Unwrapped. Retrieved ... Altruism may be seen as similar to utilitarianism, however an essential difference is that the latter prescribes acts that ...
... is a form of altruism based on moral emotions or feelings for others. Social exchange theory holds that in ... The results confirmed the empathy-altruism hypothesis: those in the high empathy group were almost equally likely to help her ... The key ingredient to such helping is "empathic concern". According to Batson's "empathy-altruism hypothesis", if someone feels ... They addressed two hypotheses that counter the empathy-altruism hypothesis: Empathy Specific Reward: Empathy triggers the need ...
"Centre for Effective Altruism Announces Lineup for Effective Altruism Global 2015". Pitchengine. Centre for Effective Altruism ... Effective Altruism Global (2021). "Events". Effective Altruism Global. Retrieved 2021-12-24. Vaintrob, Lizka; Wiley, Amy (2021- ... 12-15). "EA conferences in 2022: save the dates". Effective Altruism Forum. Retrieved 2021-12-24. "Talks". Effective Altruism ... Effective Altruism Global, abbreviated EA Global or EAG, is a series of philanthropy conferences that focuses on the effective ...
Effective Altruism Forum, a CEA-run online forum for the effective altruism community. Effective Altruism Global, a CEA-run ... Centre For Effective Altruism (2022). "CEA's Strategy , Centre For Effective Altruism". Centre For Effective Altruism. ... "Effective Altruism". 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-20. Effective Altruism Forum (2022). "Community". Effective Altruism Forum. ... Centre For Effective Altruism (2022). "What is CEA?". Centre For Effective Altruism. Retrieved 2022-09-19. "EA Global - The ...
The concept of ″altruism″ in biology arose from the debate of ″the Problem of Altruism″ in Natural Selection. Charles Darwin ... Comte's altruism describes the nature of human and ethical significance, but it's completely different from the altruism in ... Trivers, L. R. (1971). The evolution of Reciprocal Altruism. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 46(1), pp. 35-57. "altruism (n ... reciprocal altruism″ to explain the evolution of cooperation. The idea of reciprocal altruism is almost the same as kin ...
The altruism theory of voting is a model of voter behavior which states that if citizens in a democracy have "social" ... In his paper "Altruism and Turnout," James H. Fowler explained how the altruistic theory modified the calculus of voting: ... Fowler, James H. "Altruism and Turnout." The Journal of Politics 68.3 (2006): 673-83. JSTOR. Web. 20 Oct. 2012. Riker, William ... "Unequal Altruism and the Voting Paradox." George Mason University Law and Economics Research Paper Series. 12-36 (2012): n. ...
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Altruism. Whenever anyone wants others to do their work, they call upon their altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say ... Ryan also has a vast hatred for the religious, as well as the altruistic, as he believes altruism to be the root of all evil. A ...
Nowak, Martin and Roger Highfield (2011). Super Cooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed. New ... Social complexity theory is applied in studies of social cooperation and public goods; altruism; education; global civil ...
Kin altruism and selfish gene theory are examples of this division. On biological altruism, the Stanford Encyclopedia of ... Nietzsche, rather than rejecting the practice of altruism, warns that despite there being neither much altruism nor equality in ... In this sense, altruism defined Comte's position that all self-regard must be replaced with only the regard for others. While ... Altruism - Principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others Enlightened self-interest - Ethical philosophy Homo ...
"Altruism". Ayn Rand Lexicon. Retrieved September 2, 2022. Brook, Yaron. "Yaron Lectures: The Morality of Selfishness a talk for ... Brook promotes the Objectivist ethical position that rational selfishness is a moral virtue and that altruism is evil. Yaron ...
... altruism, sociocracy, and the religion of Humanity. Altruism termed coined by Comte in the 19th century "a theory of conduct ... He may also have coined the word altruisme (altruism). Auguste Comte was born in Montpellier, Hérault on 19 January 1798. After ... "Altruism". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica. {{cite web}}: ,first1= has generic name (help) Gane, Mike (2016 ... " ("live for others"), from which comes the word "altruism". Comte was agitated by the fact that no one had synthesized physics ...
"The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive". Effective Altruism. Retrieved 2019-06-20. Kadlec 2008, p. 110. "A ...
An effective altruism advocate, Friedrich is a member of Giving What We Can, a community of people who have pledged to donate a ... "Bruce Friedrich: From Agitator to Innovator". Effective Altruism. October 2, 2018. Archived from the original on July 1, 2021. ... People associated with effective altruism, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals personnel, People from West Lafayette, ...
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Pathological altruism. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. p. 53. ISBN 9780199876341. Goldberg, Arnold I., ed. (1992). New ... Codependency and Pathological Altruism. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 49. ISBN 9780199876341. Johnson, R. Skip (13 July ...
Effective altruism Intergenerational equity Population ethics Social discount rate Timeline of the far future What We Owe the ... It is an important concept in effective altruism and serves as a primary motivation for efforts to reduce existential risks to ... Matthews, Dylan (2022-08-08). "How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force". Vox. Retrieved ... ISBN 978-1-5416-1862-6. MacAskill, William (2019-07-25). "Longtermism". Effective Altruism Forum.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url- ...
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"Biological Altruism". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Articles with short description, Short ... Theories addressing this have included kin selection, group selection, and reciprocal altruism (both direct and indirect, and ...
de Waal FB (2008). "Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathy" (PDF). Annual Review of Psychology. 59 ( ... de Waal FB (2008). "Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathy". Annual Review of Psychology. 59 (1): ... Empathy-induced altruism may not always produce pro-social effects. For example, it could lead one to exert oneself on behalf ... Empathy-induced altruism can improve attitudes toward stigmatized groups, and to improve racial attitudes, and actions toward ...
One such phenomenon is known as biological altruism. This is a situation in which an organism appears to act in a way that ... This is distinct from traditional notions of altruism because such actions are not conscious, but appear to be evolutionary ... Evolutionary game theory explains this altruism with the idea of kin selection. Altruists discriminate between the individuals ... Okasha, Samir (3 June 2003). "Biological Altruism". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford ...
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Cite this: Altruism in the COVID Era: The Study That Gives Me Hope - Medscape - Jun 10, 2020. ... The interesting finding was that virtually all of the modes of altruism were robust to variation in the other modes. The only ...
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When they advocate altruism at a distance, some of them are not choosing logic over empathy, because the misery of distant ... The Logic of Effective Altruism A minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of ones spare resources ... They dont always understand that, to many people, to suppress emotional connection to make way for a more rational altruism is ... Then again, intuitions about altruism at a distance are as conflicted as intuitions about killing. Take people who donate a ...
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Enslaved by Altruism. Harry Binswanger March 18, 2017 Audio In Summer 2017 ... But if you accept the moral code of altruism, you have to view things in reverse. To an altruist, cutting off the flow of tax ... Nancy Pelosi was acting as an apostle of altruism when she protested that the Ryan bill would transfer money to the rich. In ...
Effective altruism posits that making money by (almost) any means necessary is OK because you, Elon and Zuck and SBF are so ... Effective altruism may even have provided a direct rationalization of a large, secret and illegal bailout loan to sister ... But effective altruism more specifically could have excused or encouraged behaviors that led to FTXs downfall. Perhaps not ... A less charitable summary of effective altruism, then, would be that it is little more than a fancy way of saying "the ends ...
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These themes are often assumed to be strongly linked, such that altruism is required for group‐level adaptation. Multilevel ... groups and do not require the extreme genetic variation among groups that is usually associated with the evolution of altruism ... selection theory reveals a more complex relationship between the themes of altruism and organism. Adaptation at every level of ... An analysis of 43 evolutionary models in which altruism evolves and where the authors attribute the evolution of altruism to a ...
... and even develop ideas like virtue and shame to justify that altruism? In this lecture, Christopher Boehm offers an elegant new ... theory that traces the development of altruism and group social control over 6 million years. ... Altruism, and Shame. * Event Date: Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 2:00 pm ... Tracing the development of altruism and group social control over 6 million years, Boehm argues that our moral sense is a ...
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  • These findings point to a possible concrete benefit of such policies-an increase in life-saving acts of altruism. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Question 1: Altruism is a behavior that benefits another individual despite the cost to oneself (Sparrow and Spaniol, 2018). (123helpme.com)
  • The results favor the hypothesis that people avoid altruistic actions by distorting beliefs about others' altruism. (aeaweb.org)
  • In this essay, I will attempt to explain altruism as the presence of an altruistic gene which is selected for by natural selection in terms of kin selection. (123helpme.com)
  • Moreover there are endless examples of what appears to be genuine altruism, where there can be no possible future gain for the individual - a soldier throwing themselves on a grenade to protect their colleagues is undoubtedly altruistic, but it brings an iterated game of the Prisoner's Dilemma to a final and fatal close. (psyfitec.com)
  • The basic idea is that altruism is an illusion, because we're only altruistic towards those who carry our genes, and the more of our genes they carry the more we favour them. (psyfitec.com)
  • Here, we elucidate the neural origins of individual and contextual differences in altruism by examining altruistic choices in different inequality contexts with computational modeling and electroencephalography ( EEG ). (bvsalud.org)
  • Washington, May 1 (IANS) Altruism wears different hats under different circumstances, says a new math model that pinpoints the conditions favouring one form of altruism over another. (newstrackindia.com)
  • Make no mistake, some sort of pure form of altruism is not what I am describing here. (c4ss.org)
  • However, attachment avoidance had a significant effect on altruism in that those who were high in avoidance donated less money. (frontiersin.org)
  • The first factor that has an effect on altruism is a person's age. (123helpme.com)
  • The concept of altruism dates back to the time of the French sociologists and philosopher, Auguste Comte. (123helpme.com)
  • The concept of altruism was introduced by French philosopher Auguste Comte in mid 19th century. (booklocker.com)
  • Their two classic albums, Flemish Altruism and Inindependence , reissued on vinyl by Thrill Jockey for Record Store Day on 19 April, are both presented with an array of previously unpublished pictures in a special four-LP set that includes download cards. (popmatters.com)
  • Flemish Altruism is the result of this formula, and tunes like "Jacking Off George Lucas" or "Ed Is 50" betray an improvisational approach which heavily relies on the dichotomy between the extreme unpredictability of noise and the discipline usually behind melodic patterns. (popmatters.com)
  • Flemish Altruism and Inindependence are the band's only full-lengths and it could not be otherwise. (popmatters.com)
  • evolutionary theories of selfishness and altruism among men and beasts (T.C. Bergstrom). (elsevier.com)
  • False Binaries: Altruism and Selfishness in NGO Work- S. De Jong . (rienner.com)
  • Because of the tension between selfishness and altruism, Simler and Hanson argue that the human brain evolved to play social games -competitions that require balancing self-interest with cooperation . (shortform.com)
  • But the benefits of altruism are different for different behaviours, said study author Michael Wade, professor at Indiana University and visiting scholar at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Centre (NESC), Durham, North Carolina. (newstrackindia.com)
  • An analysis of 43 evolutionary models in which altruism evolves and where the authors attribute the evolution of altruism to a pathway other than kin selection and/or deny the role of relatedness reveals that in every case the life cycle assumptions entail local reproduction and local interactions, thereby leading to interacting individuals being genetically related. (semanticscholar.org)
  • Social and evolutionary biologists, psychologists, economists and philosophers alike have made many attempts at providing an explanation for altruism. (123helpme.com)
  • He is a Founding Patron of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). (voiceamerica.com)
  • Her commitment to creating an environment where young women learnt about independence, altruism, compassion, and honesty. (amazingwomenrock.com)
  • You've recently been involved in a high-profile academic row over what drives the evolution of social traits such as altruism. (newscientist.com)
  • If evolution is a 'struggle for existence', why do we witness so much altruism in nature? (lse.ac.uk)
  • Our panel of biologists and philosophers of biology will discuss the legacy of Hamilton's ideas, and the evolution of altruism in microbes, insects, humans, and the cells of our own bodies. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The evolution of altruism: game theory in multilevel selection and inclusive fitness. (semanticscholar.org)
  • Recent years have seen a renewed debate over the importance of groupselection, especially as it relates to the evolution of altruism. (semanticscholar.org)
  • Here, concepts and theories in social evolution are synthesized and the evolution of helping is shaped by direct and indirect fitness options and helping is only altruism if it reduces the helper's direct fitness. (semanticscholar.org)
  • Her fascination with the biological and cognitive reasons behind religious altruism has landed Dr. Sasaki a prestigious John Templeton Foundation research grant of $330,842(US), making her just the second York University professor to receive Templeton Foundation funding (York humanities professor Bernard Lightman and colleagues at Coventry University in England received a $3.5 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust in 2014 to study contemporary public debates surrounding evolution and religion). (universityaffairs.ca)
  • One of the most important may be "effective altruism," Bankman-Fried's beloved philanthropic philosophy. (coindesk.com)
  • The Future Fund was set up to help implement Bankman-Fried's effective altruism playbook, but departing staff say it won't have funds to deliver grants it had already approved. (coindesk.com)
  • Look past the news headlines and celebrity endorsements, says William MacAskill, author of Doing Good Better, an associate professor at the University of Cambridge, co-founder of two non-profits and an advocate for effective altruism. (jayrobb.me)
  • In contrast, researchers have found--at least in the immediate aftermath of disasters--that community resilience and unity, strengthening of social ties, self- help, heightened initiative, altruism, and prosocial behavior more often prevail. (cdc.gov)
  • Multilevel selection theory reveals a more complex relationship between the themes of altruism and organism. (semanticscholar.org)
  • Consequently, altruism in humans may have evolved as a result of either kin selection, group/multilevel selection or reciprocal altruism. (123helpme.com)
  • We propose and model one possible explanation: that individual aversion to inequality--both envy and altruism--lead to systematic differences in support for trade protection across industries, with sectors employing lower-earning workers more intensively being relatively preferred recipients for trade protection. (nber.org)
  • The Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism provides a comprehensive set of reviews of literature on the economics of nonmarket voluntary transfers. (elsevier.com)
  • The foundations of the field are reviewed first, with a sequence of chapters that present the hard core of the theoretical and empirical analyses of giving, reciprocity and altruism in economics, examining their relations with the viewpoints of moral philosophy, psychology, sociobiology, sociology and economic anthropology. (elsevier.com)
  • 1. Introduction to the economics of altruism, giving and reciprocity (S-C. Kolm). (elsevier.com)
  • 8. The economics of fairness, Reciprocity and altruism: Experimental evidence (E. Fehr, K.M. Schmidt). (elsevier.com)
  • We might even discover that the origins of economic laws - reciprocity, altruism, and rationing - came to us through our primate ancestors. (aspenideas.org)
  • A less charitable summary of effective altruism, then, would be that it is little more than a fancy way of saying "the ends justify the means. (coindesk.com)
  • They also knew that subjective well-being varies greatly from region to region in the U.S., and is linked to lesser forms of altruism, like volunteer work and charitable giving. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • varied within subjects), while they performed a series of decision tasks assessing betrayal aversion (the Betrayal Aversion Elicitation Task), altruism (donating money to a charitable organization), and risk taking (the Balloon Analog Risk Task). (frontiersin.org)
  • But if we can increase people's focus on the thoughts and experiences of others, we can decrease those mistakes while increasing charitable giving and making altruism feel a lot easier. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Biologists, anthropologists, and historians have long debated the origins of altruism. (shortform.com)
  • In the year 1853 Auguste Comte a French philosopher took French word Altrui which means "of or to others" and alruisme which means "selflessness, opposed of egoism' and came out Altruism. (123helpme.com)
  • That implies he and FTX were always facilitating harm to its users, but the neoliberal and utilitarian underpinnings of effective altruism allowed him to justify that as a matter of consumer freedom. (coindesk.com)
  • The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of £2,000,000 ($2,688,000 at time of conversion) to the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) for general support. (openphilanthropy.org)
  • Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $7,500,000 to the Centre for Effective Altruism for general support. (openphilanthropy.org)
  • Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $500,000 to the Centre for Effective Altruism to continue support for Jade Leung's work developing a longtermist incubator. (openphilanthropy.org)
  • They don't always understand that, to many people, to suppress emotional connection to make way for a more rational altruism is to crush their moral roots. (bostonreview.net)
  • But if you accept the moral code of altruism, you have to view things in reverse. (theobjectivestandard.com)
  • When I first heard about Effective Altruism, back around 2013, it was pitched to me like this: We need to take our moral obligations seriously. (currentaffairs.org)
  • Tracing the development of altruism and group social control over 6 million years, Boehm argues that our moral sense is a sophisticated defense mechanism that enables individuals to survive and thrive in groups. (skeptic.com)
  • If morality is hardwired, then a preference for those who are near to us is moral, and extending altruism to include those who are not next to us would be immoral. (blogspot.com)
  • Peter Singer and effective altruists believe altruism at a distance is usually better, for practical reasons. (bostonreview.net)
  • Effective altruists know people crave the "warm glow" of helping, but to them this feeling has no value in itself-it is just fuel for the altruism machine. (bostonreview.net)
  • Creature Discomfort: does giving to animal charities present a problem for Effective Altruism? (cafonline.org)
  • Imagine my surprise, then, when what I actually read was an article which not only failed to deliver the sort of donkey sanctuary-baiting I was expecting, but which actually seemed to undermine the very idea of Effective Altruism. (cafonline.org)
  • But it struck me as extremely odd in the context of an article from the viewpoint of effective altruism. (cafonline.org)
  • Surely the crux of effective altruism as a philosophical doctrine is to answer the question "what should you give to in order to achieve the greatest good? (cafonline.org)
  • There is reason to believe that the ethos of effective altruism (sometimes shortened to "EA") enabled and even encouraged the disaster at every step along the way. (coindesk.com)
  • But effective altruism more specifically could have excused or encouraged behaviors that led to FTX's downfall. (coindesk.com)
  • Effective altruism also encompasses an emphasis on "long-termism," which can read like another excuse for mercenary corner-cutting today, so long as you commit your loot to improving tomorrow. (coindesk.com)
  • Effective altruism may even have provided a direct rationalization of a large, secret and illegal bailout loan to sister trading shop Alameda Research, which appears to have helped bring down FTX. (coindesk.com)
  • Socialism is the most effective altruism. (currentaffairs.org)
  • The repugnant philosophy of "Effective Altruism" offers nothing to movements for global justice. (currentaffairs.org)
  • The first thing that should raise your suspicions about the " Effective Altruism movement " is the name. (currentaffairs.org)
  • Effective altruism as distinct from what? (currentaffairs.org)
  • Effective Altruism can be defined as a "social movement," a "research field," or a "practical community. (currentaffairs.org)
  • The Center For Effective Altruism says it's about "find[ing] the best ways to help others, and put[ting] them into practice," and is now "applied by tens of thousands of people in more than 70 countries. (currentaffairs.org)
  • The effective altruist believes in two things: first, not ignoring your duty to help other people (the altruism part), and second, making sure that as you pursue that duty, you're accomplishing something truly meaningful that genuinely helps people (the effectiveness part). (currentaffairs.org)
  • CEA is a central organization within the effective altruism (EA) community that we believe has a good track record of helping the community grow. (openphilanthropy.org)
  • CEA is a central organization within the effective altruism (EA) community that. (openphilanthropy.org)
  • What is effective altruism? (bizlim.com)
  • MacAskill said longtermism was informed by his previous work on effective altruism - a movement aimed at zeroing in on the most constructive ways to make the world a better place. (cbc.ca)
  • Volunteer tourism being an ambiguous concept could be seen equally as an expression of social conscience and civil duty but also as cynical exploitation of human qualities like altruism and empathy. (strath.ac.uk)
  • Cynical altruism? (mediasavvy.com)
  • Two Georgetown University psychological scientists recently figured out a way to explore the roots of unambiguous altruism, using aggregate data from states and national surveys. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • We call this motive 'relational altruism' - the motivation to give that comes from caring about someone who cares about raising money for charity. (cepr.org)
  • Not simply is this a reflection of altruism, but an understanding that the health of the business is linked to the health and wellbeing of the people who work there. (interiordesign.net)
  • Most math models of how cooperation comes to be assume that all forms of altruism provide similar perks. (newstrackindia.com)
  • Altruism is critical for cooperation and productivity in human societies but is known to vary strongly across contexts and individuals. (bvsalud.org)
  • For example, biologist Richard Dawkins believes that cooperation and altruism are selfish-but for different reasons than the ones Simler and Hanson describe. (shortform.com)
  • This enthralling modern fable champions altruism while illustrating intimacy's relationship with honesty, respect, trust, and consent. (bookpassage.com)
  • When they advocate altruism at a distance, some of them are not choosing logic over empathy, because the misery of distant strangers moves as much as the misery of those nearby. (bostonreview.net)
  • Volunteer tourism : altruism, empathy or self enhancement? (strath.ac.uk)
  • It is much less clear where, on a continuum from altruism to self enhancement, volunteer tourism falls, and it is likely that this varies greatly from individual to individual. (strath.ac.uk)
  • Advocating altruism at a distance need not require choosing logic over empathy. (bostonreview.net)
  • Wilson also mentions an act of self-sacrifice that might be better thought of as altruism: a certain species of mother spider lets her children eat her. (freakonomics.com)
  • 2017). Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism? . (oregonstate.edu)
  • IF THE HUMAN INSTINCT to survive and reproduce is "selfish," why do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas like virtue and shame to justify that altruism? (skeptic.com)
  • Shakespeare vs. Becker on Altruism: The Importance of Having the Last Word ," Journal of Economic Literature , American Economic Association, vol. 15(2), pages 500-502, June. (repec.org)
  • In this study, we indirectly investigated the presumed effect of endogenously released oxytocin by gently stroking participants on their forearm while they performed a series of decision tasks assessing betrayal aversion, altruism, and risk taking. (frontiersin.org)
  • Researchers find that a simple computational model of altruism, where specific brain regions represent other's needs, can predict when people are generous and why generosity sometimes feels so difficult. (medicalxpress.com)
  • A unified neural account of contextual and individual differences in altruism. (bvsalud.org)
  • Our findings suggest separable biological bases for individual and contextual differences in altruism that relate to differences in the initial processing of choice-relevant information. (bvsalud.org)
  • Meanwhile, zoological research increasingly points to the fact that altruism isn't uniquely human. (shortform.com)
  • The debate on whether or not it exists is highly debated, but I am more concerned with what factors affect a person displaying altruism. (123helpme.com)
  • The findings suggest a 'relational altruism' motive, where donors give because they care about the person who is raising the money. (cepr.org)
  • Altruism is a sympathetic and generous action done towards others. (123helpme.com)
  • A'bdullah, observing the slave's selflessness and altruism, thought to himself that the slave was more generous than himself. (qul.org.au)
  • Our estimates indicate that both envy and altruism influence support for trade protection in the United States and that altruism influences policy opinions in China. (nber.org)
  • Brethel-Haurwitz and Marsh wondered if there might be a connection between regional well-being and the prevalence of unusual altruism-a strong enough connection to support their model. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Table 1 provides evidence in support of a relational altruism motive in giving. (cepr.org)
  • The idea that altruism is, in fact, a chimera has strong support from studies of other animals where selfless displays of sacrifice are generally either rare or completely pre-programmed, such as where ants or bees sacrifice themselves for the wider community. (psyfitec.com)
  • This sense-that it is disturbing to act upon people at such a distance that they become abstractions, even if the consequences are better-explains something many find off-putting about Singer's movement: it is the drone program of altruism. (bostonreview.net)
  • It's one thing to exhibit altruism out of calculated self-interest, it's entirely another to do so because people genuinely care more about others than themselves. (psyfitec.com)
  • The role of altruism in economic interaction ," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization , Elsevier, vol. 21(1), pages 1-15, May. (repec.org)
  • The suggestion is that this research may provide a way to give us a more general sense of altruism that extends to distant others. (blogspot.com)
  • Once chosen, the path of creative altruism can take many forms, and for some it is public service," says Joe Sarcone, Environmental Health Scientist, Region 10 Representative and leading expert on Alaskan Native population environmental health topics for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). (cdc.gov)
  • About Kindness, Altruism and Modern Altruism-the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (booklocker.com)
  • We all learned as much as kids, and a host of scientific studies have shown that altruism actually does wonders for your health as well as your soul. (prevention.com)
  • I would like to use this opportunity to thank them once again for their self-sacrifice and altruism and their invaluable contribution to improving the health of the populations. (who.int)
  • Even the act of giving alms occupies a lower rank than altruism. (qul.org.au)
  • These themes are often assumed to be strongly linked, such that altruism is required for group‐level adaptation. (semanticscholar.org)
  • Effektiv Altruism är ett globalt community som försöker ta reda på hur man kan förbättra världen genom att handla utifrån tillgänglig evidens. (studentlund.se)
  • Altruism Versus Self-Interest: Sometimes a False Dichotomy. (philpapers.org)
  • So I understand in a personal way that living kidney donation is an extraordinary gift, a far-too-rare act of pure altruism. (psychologicalscience.org)