Word: altruism
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...results did not completely follow their hypothesis. The highest frequency of altruism occurred when a member of a sex held the door for a member of the same...
...perhaps the most interesting result is the overall level of student altruism...
That's the good news. The bad news is that a subtle, often unconscious, bias toward ourselves, our kin and our friends can narrow altruism and color moral judgments. "Deception and hypocrisy are very human devices for conducting the complex daily business of social life," wrote Edward O. Wilson in Sociobiology (1975), which brought the new paradigm to the world's attention...
...reputations and bring great personal satisfaction to benefactor (I didn't write all those letters of gratitude to members of the Class of 1954 for nothing). Giving your $10 to senior gift is great, but don't try telling me it's in the sprit of Ghandhi-like altruism, or that every gift matters as much as the next in terms of the payoff for those giving...
...hold the ideal of romantic love in low esteem. It greatly values physical beauty, which is transient and vacuous and often serves to justify sexual behavior that would otherwise be recognized as unacceptable. It breeds vindictive jealousy at least as often as it does altruism, and it hypocritically presents as selfless what is immensely egotistic. C.S. Lewis writes in the preface to The Screwtape Letters: "In human life we have seen the passion to dominate, almost to digest, one's fellow; to make his whole intellectual and emotional life merely an extension of one's own--to hate...