Altruism

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• We May Be Born With an Urge to Help

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  Another article looking at the research supporting the idea that we are basically born good, wanting to be helpful and caring about others - I guess theyve never had a three-year-old. Still, the research shows we are not born bad, as some religions might have us thunk. We May Be Born With an Urge to Help ...
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• Rescuing Ranu

  
  Scattered Light — Authority: 121
  Cheryls novel RESCUING RANU made its debut on Amazon today. The book is about Nela Sambashivan( the sister from Cheryls first novel Shivas Arms,) who returns to her native India to research the mathematics of collectives and is drawn into the lives of ten year old Ranu, the cunning motel-keeper who exploits her, and ...
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• We Are Evolving to Become More Compassionate and Collaborative

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  Bodhisattva of Compassion This new body of research confirms the cultural developmental model that is embedded in the various integral theories - as we become more evolved, we also become more compassionate. And its good news for human beings in general. Survival Of The Kindest Researchers at the University ...
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• No rabid dogs allowed

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 139
  When author Stephen King heard that a unit with the Maine National Guard was looking to travel home from training in Indiana for Christmas, King forked over $12,999 to help finance a pair of charter buses . Little did the soldiers know that the buses they were on were taking them … to Salem’s Lot! THUNDER AND ...
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• Smug Eco Shoppers More Likely to Cheat and Steal

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  You might think that because eco-conscious shoppers care about the earth, they also have strong morals. But according to a recent study, that isn’t true – in fact, greenies are more likely to cheat and steal. The study, conducted by by Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong at the University of Toronto, found that ...
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• Should old women pay for the health of old men?

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 491
  Several years ago, Richard Posner conjectured that old women should pay for the health care of old men. The reason is that old women tend to live longer and appreciate the company of men, thus they would be happier if they lived longer. This is a purely theoretical argument as in all industrialized economies health ...
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• SOAPBOX of the week: heartless smear vs. honored silence

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 106
  “Airing one’s dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.”     – Francois Truffaut, filmmaker A week scarcely goes by that our ears and eyes are bombarded by yet another public confession of transgression.   Tabloids showcase a celeb’s rehab trip; while a breaking news update places a politician’s ...
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• Save Beanie!

  
  Global Investment Watch — Authority: 114
  This is a picture of one of my kittens, Beanie. She is cute, lovable and needs your help. She was found in a bush on a busy street here on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, flea bitten and underfed. She is now a healthy cat but is being terrorized by my other cat, Binkley. SAVE BEANIE! No, not really. Beanie can take ...
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• Economics is about so much more than the pursuit of happiness - Samuelson knew it

  
  Peter Martin — Authority: 556
  Paul Samuelson is dead, at 94. I feel as I felt when other legends died - bereft. Of course, he taught me economics - through his great textbook, co-authored in Australia with Keith Hancock and Robert Wallace.  (I was fortunate enough to have Hancock and Wallace teach me in person, so academically I was ...
  4 days ago

• Boldly Brunching --and at Length

  
  Peggy Payne's Boldness Blog — Authority: 122
  This morning was the Christmas brunch with five other women Ive been getting together with for 34 to 39 years. Always fun and this one for no particular reason was particularly so.This time instead of getting each other bath products, etcetera, we each gave some money to some good cause. Mine was to pay for all ...
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• Friday dysfunctional roundup, geriatric version: Nursing home resident, 98, accused of strangling roomie, 100 — acquired geriatric sociopathy due to frontotemporal dementia?

  
  Neurological Correlates — Authority: 116
  Geriatric research needs to get up to speed on acquired sociopathy with frontotemporal dementia.
  6 days ago

• On Health Care, Are Europeans Just Kinder People?

  
  Economix — Authority: 729
  Maybe its just cheaper for them to be so generous, an economist writes.
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• Positive Psychology – The Science of Optimal Human Functioning with Dr. John Schinnerer - One hour teleclass 12/8/09

  
  Shrunken Mind w/Dr. John Schinnerer - Using Positive Psychology to Master Life — Authority: 103
  John Schinnerer, Ph.D.Partial script for 1-hour teleclass on 12/8/09 Welcome to what I hope will be a wonderful talk on positive psychology. I will be your host tonight. My name is John Schinnerer. I hold a Ph.D. in educational psychology from U.C. Berkeley. In 2007, I wrote a positive psychology book called ‘Guide ...
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• SOAPBOX of the week: immeasurable impact

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 106
  “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”     – William James, philosopher and psychologist It’s the sign that reads “population 5,861”.  The reason for a weight limit on an elevator.  How a candidate wins a neck-in-neck running.  The latest entry in the Guinness Book of World ...
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• The Altruistic Toddler

  
  Philosophy On The Mesa — Authority: 121
  Are humans selfish by nature? Yes. Are humans unselfish by nature? Yes. And that seems to be the answer(s) to one of the most ferocious debates in moral philosophy—at least among those who like quick and absolutist answers. A certain episode of Friends comes to mind—“The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS”—where ...
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• Google Invades ISP, OpenDNS Turf With Google Public DNS

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 137
  Whether it breaks the core functionality of the Internet or not , there’s very few ISPs left who aren’t using DNS redirection advertising. The “service” essentially creates an entirely new revenue stream for ISPs, by presenting users with an ad-laden search portal instead of the traditional page not found ...
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• Why economists and women are not nice

  
  Geary Behavioural Economics Blog — Authority: 138
  Everybody thinks economists are wicked people who would cheerfully send children up chimneys, cut the minimum wage and [horror of horrors] make well-off people pay for their own investments in higher education. Now we have the evidence to prove it. Why are economics students more selfish than the rest? ...
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• Getting Rich

  
  Peggy Payne's Boldness Blog — Authority: 122
  I just wrote a perfectly nice post on this subject with lots of links, hit Publish, and the text disappeared totally, nowhere to be found.Heres roughly what it said. The Dallas Morning News has a story today that says: Wanna feel rich? Give.The story cited the book I co-authored with Allan Luks: The Healing Power ...
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• Innate Cooperation

  
  Creativity & Innovation — Authority: 103
  A new book by Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate , presents evidence that babies are born to be social and to help others. Tomasello argues that helping others is genetic, rather than learned. This is an important contribution to the “altruism” debate–why would a rational (i.e. self-interested) person expend ...
  2 weeks ago

• When Do You Act Like A Good Samaritan, And When Do You Avert Your Gaze And Keep Going?

  
  Everyday Ethics — Authority: 121
  I ask because today, during lunch, a coworker and I were walking down the street, and we saw a man in a wheelchair, with only one leg, seeming to struggle to make his way down the block. What did I do?  I looked away and moved on.   Why did I do it?  Read this post »
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