ISBN: 9780195388107

Moving Beyond Self-Interest is an interdisciplinary volume that discusses cutting-edge developments in the science of caring for and helping others. In Part I, contributors raise foundati… Altro …

Moving Beyond Self-Interest is an interdisciplinary volume that discusses cutting-edge developments in the science of caring for and helping others. In Part I, contributors raise foundational issues related to human caregiving. They present new theories and data to show how natural selection might have shaped a genuinely altruistic drive to benefit others, how this drive intersects with the attachment and caregiving systems, and how it emergesfrom a broader social engagement system made possible by symbiotic regulation of autonomic physiological states. In Part II, contributors propose a new neurophysiological model of the human caregiving system and present arguments and evidence to show how mammalian neural circuitry that supports parenting might be recruited to direct human cooperation and competition, human empathy, and parental and romanticlove. Part III is devoted to the psychology of human caregiving. Some contributors in this section show how an evolutionary perspective helps us better understand parental investment in and empathic concern for children at risk for, or suffering from, various health, behavioral, and cognitive problems. Other contributors identify circumstances that differentially predict caregiver benefits and costs, and raise the question of whether extreme levels of compassion are actually pathological. The section concludes with a discussion of semantic and conceptual obstacles to the scientific investigationof caregiving. Part IV focuses on possible interfaces between new models of caregiving motivation and economics, political science, and social policy development. In this section, contributors show how the new theory and research discussed in this volume can inform our understanding of economic utility, policiesfor delivering social services (such as health care and education), and hypotheses concerning the origins and development of human society, including some of its more problematic features of nationalism, conflict, and war. The chapters in this volume help readers appreciate the human capacity forengaging in altruistic acts, on both a small and large scale. | Moving Beyond Self-Interest by Stephanie L. Brown Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Health > Mental Health > Psychology & Psychiatry P10174, Stephanie L. Brown<

ISBN: 9780195388107

In Moving Beyond Self-Interest, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists, and political scientists discuss and extend cutting-edge developments in the science of caring for and helping … Altro …

In Moving Beyond Self-Interest, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists, and political scientists discuss and extend cutting-edge developments in the science of caring for and helping others. Their insights help readers appreciate the human capacity for engaging in altruistic acts, on both a small and large scale. Engelse Boeken Body & mind Alle body & mind Engelse Boeken > Body & mind > Alle body & mind Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

2011, ISBN: 9780195388107

Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], Oxford University Press Inc, 2011

2011, ISBN: 9780195388107

Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc]