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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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When altruists cannot help: the influence of altruism on the mental health of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2020
Background The positive predictive effect of altruism on physical and psychological well-being has been extensively demonstrated in previous studies, but few studies have examined the effect of altruism on negative mental health outcomes when altruists ...
Yi Feng   +5 more
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The Crowdfunding of Altruism

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Financial Management, 2022
This paper introduces a machine learning approach to quantify altruism from the linguistic style of textual documents. We apply our method to a central question in (social) entrepreneurship: How does altruism impact entrepreneurial success? Specifically, we examine the effects of altruism on crowdfunding outcomes in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).
Luisa Faust   +3 more
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Altruism in Networks [PDF]

open access: yesEconometrica, 2017
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Bourlès, Renaud   +2 more
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From Defensive Altruism to Pathological Altruism

open access: yesSAGE 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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Violence and warfare in prehistoric Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The origins and consequences of warfare or largescale intergroup violence have been subject of long debate. Based on exhaustive surveys of skeletal remains for prehistoric hunter-gatherers and agriculturists in Japan, the present study examines levels of
Arimatsu, Yui   +5 more
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Altruism and selfishness [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral and Brain Sciences, 2002
Many situations in human life present choices between (a) narrowly preferred particular alternatives and (b) narrowly less preferred (or aversive) particular alternatives that nevertheless form part of highly preferred abstract behavioral patterns. Such alternatives characterize problems of self-control.
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Altruism in nursing from 2012 to 2022: A scoping review

open access: yesFrontiers 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

open access: yesFrontiers 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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