The Altruism Question: Toward A Social-psychological Answer

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.

• | Author: C. Daniel Batson
• | Publisher: Psychology Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Psychology
• | ISBN-10: 1138988766
• | ISBN-13: 9781138988767