Eksempler på altruism

• The relationship between altruism and self-control may be understood as similar discounting processes for extrinsic reinforcement, social and temporal.

• But a third pattern might be to attempt to find somewhat more complex rules about whether altruism is in your long-run self-interest.

• How could anything so infuriatingly nebulous possibly elucidate egoism or altruism?

• This perspective suggests further tests of whether altruism is a type of self-control, including brain imaging, induced affect, and dual-task studies.

• Due taxes were reckoned in proportion to one's income, whereas voluntary undertaking of public expenditures, called 'liturgies', depended on one's wealth and sense of altruism.

• But it is not possible to determine that a separate altruism mechanism exists by the absence of reinforcement (immediate or delayed) of particular altruistic acts.

• The explanatory tale is that some people have been collecting delayed or long-term rewards for altruism or other forms of self-controlled behavior.

• I believe our understanding of altruism will be advanced best through models that integrate the contributions of different theoretical orientations.