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Level and correlates of empathy and altruism during the Covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from a representative survey in Germany.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
AimOur purpose was to clarify the level and correlates of empathy and altruism in the German population during the Covid-19 pandemic.MethodsA nationally representative survey (n = 3,075) was conducted in August/September 2021. To measure empathy, a short
André Hajek, Hans-Helmut König
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Birds of Different Feathers Cooperate Together: No Evidence for Altruism Homophily in Networks [PDF]

open access: yesSociological Science, 2014
Many evolutionary models of cooperation assume that altruists possess telltale signs of disposition that they use to find and selectively associate with each other.
Brent Simpson   +3 more
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Age-Related Associations of Altruism with Attitudes towards COVID-19 and Vaccination: A Representative Survey in the North of Italy

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
Background: During the coronavirus pandemic, altruism has been linked to personal protective behavior, vaccine development, and vaccination intention.
Verena Barbieri   +6 more
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The Healthy Selfishness and Pathological Altruism Scale: Adaptation into Turkish and Validity and Reliability Study

open access: yesAnadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi, 2023
Selfishness and altruism are two concepts of paradoxical nature. Examination of these concepts according to individuals and cultures may provide a better understanding of the paradoxical structure in question.
Orkide Bakalım, Fatma Selda Öz Soysal
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Genetic and Environmental Structure of Altruism Characterized by Recipients in Relation to Personality

open access: yesMedicina, 2021
Background and Objectives: Altruism is a form of prosocial behavior with the goal of increasing the fitness of another individual as a recipient while reducing the fitness of the actor.
Juko Ando, Tetsuya Kawamoto
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AI Governance and the Policymaking Process: Key Considerations for Reducing AI Risk

open access: yesBig Data and Cognitive Computing, 2019
This essay argues that a new subfield of AI governance should be explored that examines the policy-making process and its implications for AI governance.
Brandon Perry, Risto Uuk
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Altruism and Reciprocity in the Long-Run

open access: yesEconomía, 2018
The aim of this paper is to provide a model where altruism is determined endogenously. Altruism is an attitude that influences our actions toward other people.
Alejandro Lugón Ceruti
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Business Cycles in a Two-Sided Altruism Model

open access: yesMathematics, 2021
This study demonstrates that business cycles with complex periodic fluctuations may arise in an overlapping generations model with two-sided altruism.
Hiroshi Fujiu
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Compassion-Focused Technologies: Reflections and Future Directions

open access: yesFrontiers 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

open access: yesSociological 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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