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Prosocial Behaviors: A Matter of Altruism or Public Service Motivation?

open access: yesJournal of public administration research and theory, 2019
In recent years, public service motivation (PSM) research has grown substantially, but is still largely limited to the field of public administration.
Jaclyn S. Piatak, Stephen B. Holt
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

open access: yesEvolutionary 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The evolution of altruism

open access: yesВавиловский журнал генетики и селекции, 2017
Ever since Darwin published On The Origin of Species in 1859, the evolution of altruism has been a perennial paradox for evolutionary biologists. In this review, I will discuss three evolutionary paths to altruism – genetic relatedness, reciprocity, and ...
L. A. Dugatkin
doaj   +1 more source

Using artificial intelligence thanabots as “thanatobots” to assist anatomy learning and professional development: Ghosts masquerading as opportunity?

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Thanabots—AI‐generated digital representations of deceased donors—could enhance anatomy education by linking medical history with anatomy and fostering humanistic engagement. However, their use poses ethical questions and carries psychological risks, including issues around consent, authenticity, and emotional harm.
Jon Cornwall, Sabine Hildebrandt
wiley   +1 more source

A hermeneutic literature review to conceptualise altruism as a value in nursing.

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2019
BACKGROUND Discussions on ethics of care are needed to shape the identity of nurses and nursing. In light of the discourses surrounding nursing and altruism, nurses should initiate research on altruism and nursing.
A. E. van der Wath, N. V. Van Wyk
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trauma‐informed bequeathed body donor meeting sessions: A guide for creating a supportive and humanistic anatomy laboratory

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomy educators are increasingly seeking approaches that honor the humanity of body donors while supporting learners through their first encounters in the gross anatomy lab. We describe a comprehensive donor meeting session, implemented in both dissection and prosection curricula at two North American medical schools, that prepares students ...
Bryn Bhalerao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk: Expectations and Actual Behaviour [PDF]

open access: yesEconomics Letters, 2016
Previous research shows that women are more altruistic than men in dictator game experiments. Yet, little is known whether women are expected to be more altruistic than men.
P. Brañas-Garza   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Altruism [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2002
Altruistic actions are generally seen as 'noble'. Yet some 'lowly' organisms are apt to match the most heroic human acts of devotion and self-sacrifice. To use a widely-quoted example, consider Dicrocoelium dendriticum, also known as brainworm. These parasites spend some of their stages in the innards of cows, exit in the feces and, in the form of ...
Sigmund, K., Hauert, C.
openaire   +2 more sources

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