Altruism

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A gift of life: ethical and practical problems with conditional and directed donation. 
  • A public health approach to address the mental health burden of youth in situations of political violence and humanitarian emergencies. 
  • Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem 
  • Altruism is associated with an increased neural response to agency. 
  • Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant community. 
  • Altruistic helping in human infants and young chimpanzees. 
  • Altruistic traits are predicted by neural responses to monetary outcomes for self vs charity. 
  • Attitudes, psychology, and risk taking of potential live kidney donors: strangers, relatives, and the general public. 
  • Attrition in general surgery residency: can global and rural surgery shift the paradigm? 
  • Bonobos share with strangers. 
  • Burma and the challenge of humanitarian assistance. 
  • Can Appealing to Patient Altruism Reduce Overuse of Health Care Services? An Experimental Survey. 
  • Caregiving behavior is associated with decreased mortality risk. 
  • Children engage in competitive altruism. 
  • Chimpanzees return favors at a personal cost. 
  • Choosing Who Will be Disabled: Genetic Intervention and the Morality of Inclusion 
  • Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange 
  • Differential reward learning for self and others predicts self-reported altruism. 
  • Effectiveness of Group Problem Management Plus (Group-PM+) for adults affected by humanitarian crises in Nepal: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Equal division of estates and the exchange motive. 
  • Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: the Rohingya crisis and human rights. 
  • Evaluating the role of blood collection centers in public health: a status report. 
  • Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds. 
  • Giving Is Nicer than Taking: Preschoolers Reciprocate Based on the Social Intentions of the Distributor. 
  • Giving Preschoolers Choice Increases Sharing Behavior 
  • Human behaviour: Share and share alike. 
  • Missions, Humanitarianism, and the Evolution of Modern Global Surgery. 
  • Multidisciplinary team partnerships to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes: the Kybele experience. 
  • Nurse assistant mental models, sensemaking, care actions, and consequences for nursing home residents. 
  • Outsourcing punishment to God: beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishment. 
  • Partnering with engaged patients accelerates research. 
  • Pay-for-performance: toxic to quality? Insights from behavioral economics. 
  • Peer presence increases the prosocial behavior of adolescents by speeding the evaluation of outcomes for others. 
  • Personality Structure Among Centenarians: The Georgia Centenarian Study. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Pro-environmental behavior: rational choice meets moral motivation. 
  • Programmed cell death in bacteria and implications for antibiotic therapy. 
  • Racial differences in motivators and barriers to blood donation among blood donors. 
  • Rebuilding and strengthening health systems and providing basic health services in fragile states. 
  • Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged. 
  • Rethinking professionalism in medical education through formation. 
  • Social modulation of pain as evidence for empathy in mice. 
  • Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young children. 
  • Systematic review and metasummary of attitudes toward research in emergency medical conditions. 
  • The Danger of a single story about forensic humanitarianism. 
  • The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care 
  • The egoism and altruism of intergenerational behavior. 
  • The emergence of contingent reciprocity in young children. 
  • The euthanasia debate and empirical evidence: separating burdens to others from one's own quality of life. 
  • The psychological mechanisms underlying reciprocal prosociality in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). 
  • The roots of human altruism. 
  • Theories of kin and group selection: a population genetics perspective. 
  • Transition to Practice: A Global Surgery Approach. 
  • What's in it for me? Self-regard precludes altruism and spite in chimpanzees. 
  • Who benefits from psychosocial support interventions in humanitarian settings? 
  • Whose best interest? 
  • Why be nice? Better not think about it. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing