The Altruism Question: Toward a Social-Psychological Answer

By C. Daniel Batson

Book Overview

Are our efforts to help others ever driven solely by altruistic motivation, or is our ultimate goal always some form of self- benefit (egoistic motivation)? This volume reports the development of an empirically-testable theory of altruistic motivation and a series of experiments designed to test that theory. It sets the issue of egoism versus altruism in its larger historical and philosophical context, and brings diverse experiments into a single, integrated argument. Readers will find that this book provides a solid base of information from which questions surrounding the existence of altruistic motivation can be further investigated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805802452
• ISBN13: 9780805802450
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"