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The Altruism Question : Toward A Social-psychological Answer
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Are our efforts to help others ever driven solely by altruistic motivation, or is our ultimate goal always some form of self- benefit (egoistic motivation)? This volume reports the development of an empirically-testable theory of altruistic motivation and a series of experiments designed to test that theory. It sets the issue of egoism versus altruism in its larger historical and philosophical context, and brings diverse experiments into a single, integrated argument. Readers will find that this book provides a solid base of information from which questions surrounding the existence of altruistic motivation can be further investigated.
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- ISBN-13: 9780805802450
- ISBN-10: 0805802452
- Publisher: Psychology Press
- Publish Date: July 1991
- Dimensions: 9.31 x 6.26 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.08 pounds
- Page Count: 268
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