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Microbes can help explain the evolution of host altruism
Nature Communications, 2017 The origins of altruism have fascinated us for centuries. Here, the authors propose that altruistic behaviour could be explained by microbes manipulating their hosts to act altruistically towards other hosts that may carry related microbes, and show that
Ohad Lewin-Epstein +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
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Psychological foundations of ethical consumerism: Influential role of quality and stigma
Acta PsychologicaEthical consumer behaviour has been receiving much attention in recent times, due to heightened social issue on sustainability, corporate social responsibility and ethical consumption from the community. Integrated with the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) Theory,
Sher Jahan Khan +3 more
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Implicit attitudes to organ donor registration: altruism and distaste
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2017 Organ transplantation offers patients cost-efficient quality-of-life improvements and life-saving opportunities. In England, the majority of transplants emanate from cadaver donation in a system where would-be-donors register their agreement to donation.
Mary Sissons Joshi, Claire Stevens
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Altruistic Behavior and Correlated Equilibrium Selection [PDF]
This paper studies new refinement concepts for correlated equilibria based on altruistic behavior of the players and which generalize some refinement concepts introduced by the authors in previous papers for Nash equilibria. Effectiveness of the concepts,
Jacqueline Morgan, Giuseppe De Marco
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Brain Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is generally considered beneficial to organizations, but extra‐role behavior may also impose costs on employees under some circumstances. Whether the workplace, personality, and neuroanatomical correlates of OCB differ between men and women remains unclear.
Keisuke Kokubun +2 more
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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2018 The aim of the present study was to examine the mediating effect of self-concordance on the relationship between internet altruistic behaviour (IAB) and subjective wellbeing (SWB).
Xianliang Zheng, Fangwei Xie, Liang Ding
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Moral Sentiments and Material Interests behind Altruistic Third-Party Punishment [PDF]
Social norms are ubiquitous in human life. Their role is essential in allowing cooperation to prevail, despite the presence of incentives to free ride.
Ferruccio Ponzano +2 more
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Kin discrimination in plants: overview and implications for population and community ecology
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following the discovery of identity discrimination, particularly self and kin discrimination amongst plant competitors, research on interplant interactions has advanced significantly within plant physiology and evolutionary ecology. This review synthesizes current knowledge on how both self and kin discrimination influence plant growth ...
Akira Yamawo
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen +5 more
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