Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-lnqnp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T15:23:51.093Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Altruism is never self-sacrifice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
Affiliation:
Institute for the Study of Child Development, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 lewis@umdnj.edu http://www2.umdnj.edu/iscdweb/
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Altruism by definition involves the self's evaluation of costs and benefits of an act of the self, which must include cost to the self and benefits to the other. Reinforcement value to the self of such acts is greater than the costs to the self. Without consideration of a self-system of evaluation, there is little meaning to altruistic acts.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 268
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)