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Moving Beyond Self-Interest - Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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Moving Beyond Self-Interest - Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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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 emerges from 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 romantic love. 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 investigation of
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, policies for 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 for engaging in altruistic acts, on both a small and large
scale.
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