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Altruism is never self-sacrifice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
Affiliation:
Institute for the Study of Child Development, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 lewis@umdnj.edu http://www2.umdnj.edu/iscdweb/
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Abstract

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Altruism by definition involves the self's evaluation of costs and benefits of an act of the self, which must include cost to the self and benefits to the other. Reinforcement value to the self of such acts is greater than the costs to the self. Without consideration of a self-system of evaluation, there is little meaning to altruistic acts.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 268
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press