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Compassion-Focused Technologies: Reflections and Future Directions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Compassion is a prosocial motivation that is critical to the development and survival of the human species. Cultivating compassion involves developing deep wisdom, insight, and understanding into the nature and causes of human suffering; and wisdom and ...
Jamin Day +5 more
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Predicting Altruistic Behavior and Assessing Homophily: Evidence from the Sisterhood
Sociological Science, 2016 The persistence of altruism throughout the evolutionary process has been explained by some on the basis of assortation, which requires the ability to detect dispositional altruism in others and voluntary interaction, resulting in altruism homophily ...
Michael J. Vernarelli
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Dual-Processing Altruism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Altruism refers to an other-benefiting behavior that is costly but bears no direct profit to oneself. At least three different forms can be distinguished: help giving, altruistic punishment, and moral courage. We investigated the differential impact of two thinking modes, intuitive (System 1) and rational (System 2), on these three altruistic behaviors.
Kinnunen, Suna, Windmann, Sabine
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The Enjoyment of Knowledge Sharing: Impact of Altruism on Tacit Knowledge-Sharing Behavior
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Knowledge sharing between individuals is a key process for knowledge-intensive organizations to create value and gain a competitive edge. An individual is in the center of a complex set of factors, which are conducive to the knowledge-sharing process ...
Bojan Obrenovic +5 more
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The evolution of altruism and the serial rediscovery of the role of relatedness
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance The canonical explanation for the evolution of altruism (“kin selection”)—which was mathematically derived in the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton—emphasizes the importance of genetic relatedness.
Tomas Kay, L. Keller, L. Lehmann
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From Defensive Altruism to Pathological Altruism
SAGE Open, 2018 Altruism is often regarded as a virtuous trait and it often is. However, for some people, their altruism can unwittingly become pathological and cause serious behavioral problems in them. What makes their altruism go awry and become pathological?
Sanxing Sun
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Altruism in nursing from 2012 to 2022: A scoping review
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 BackgroundBeing a nurse with non-altruistic orientation exists and altruism decline is being challenged as never before, which would be a disaster for medicine if left unnoticed.PurposeTo describe the meaning of altruism and altruistic behaviors in ...
Yilin Chen +6 more
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Low Altruism as a Cause of Ostracism
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study focused on the causes of ostracism and explored the relationship between altruistic personality traits and ostracism. Using a combination of questionnaire surveys and laboratory experiments, results showed that: individuals with lower altruism
Lianqiong Huang +2 more
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.Schematic representation of M@E@CF nanosensors for detecting vesicular storage and release in cholinergic neurons and brain organoids. (A) Nano‐tip microelectrodes modification via molds fabricated through 3D printing. (B) the reaction mechanism for acetylcholine detection at the electrode interface.
Wanying Zhu +11 more
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Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism
Scientific Reports, 2020 Clinical evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety, depression, and stress, and improves emotion regulation due to modulation of activity in neural substrates linked to the regulation of emotions and social preferences.
Sage K. Iwamoto +5 more
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