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Provision or Good Genes? Menstrual Cycle Shifts in Women's Preferences for Short-Term and Long-Term Mates' Altruistic Behavior

Evolutionary Psychology, 2014
Men's altruism may have evolved, via female choice, as a signal of either their genetic quality or their willingness to allocate resources to offspring. The possibility that men display altruism to signal their genetic quality may be tested by examining ...
Ryo Oda, Akari Okuda, Mia Takeda, Kai Hiraishi   +3 more
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The impacts of altruism levels on the job preferences of medical students: a cross-sectional study in China

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background Rational allocation of human resources for health is crucial for ensuring public welfare and equitable access to health services. Understanding medical students’ job preferences could help develop effective strategies for the recruitment and ...
Yue Zhang, Xing Lin, Xing Li, Youli Han
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Dual-processing altruism [PDF]

, 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.
Pirita Kinnunen, Suna, Windmann, Sabine
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A few misunderstandings about reciprocal altruism

Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2010
Current discussion about reciprocal altruism is plagued by a few points of continuing disagreement/misunderstanding. In order to facilitate progress in understanding the role of reciprocity in animal societies, in this paper we try to highlight these ...
Gabriele Schino, Filippo Aureli
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Nurses' Motivation, Altruism and Professional Commitment Levels During the Pandemic: A Descriptive and Correlational Study

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Aim: This study aimed to examine the relationship between the motivation, altruism and professional commitment levels of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aysel Özsaban, Nuray Turan, Yasemin Kıyak, Ayşen Karabacak, Gözde Ataş Türköz, Gizem Öner, Türkinaz Aştı   +6 more
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Altruism: Should it be Included as an Attribute of Medical Professionalism?

Health Professions Education, 2018
Problem: Altruism is often included in classical and modern definitions of medical professionalism and some feel that medicine is a vocation where altruism is a pre-requisite.
Joanne Harris
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My Way or the Highway: a More Naturalistic Model of Altruism Tested in an Iterative Prisoners' Dilemma [PDF]

There are three prominent solutions to the Darwinian problem of altruism, kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and trait group selection. Only one, reciprocal altruism, most commonly implemented in game theory as a TIT FOR TAT strategy, is not based on ...
David Joyce, Eric Charles, John Kennison, Nicholas S. Thompson, Owen Densmore, Shawn Barr, Stephen Guerin   +6 more
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Does dispositional awe foster young adults’ international altruism? The roles of self-transcendence and identity with all humanity

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
International altruism is crucial for promoting global stability and peaceful development. Thus, it is vital to identify factors that can enhance international altruism.
Mengyun Wang, Quan Xu
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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment [PDF]

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism.
Michael Vlassopoulos, Mirco Tonin
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Using Experimental Economics to Measure the Effects of a Natural Educational Experiment on Altruism [PDF]

Economic research examining how educational intervention programs affect primary and secondary schooling focuses largely on test scores although the interventions can affect many other outcomes.
Eric Bettinger, Robert Slonim
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