The Altruism Question: Toward A Social-psychological Answer

by C. Daniel Batson

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0805802452

ISBN13:9780805802450

Release Date:July 1991

Publisher:Psychology Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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