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	altruistic economics - Anarchopedia
		Altruistic Economics is a branch of economics set out by Robin Upton in 2004 in a presentation to the autonomous European Social Forum at the London School of Economics.
		The altruistic model allows people to explicitly declare sympathy for their friends so that other users can be aware of their feelings, and doing so is actually benefiical to the user.
		Altruistic economics is under active development, but no working system has yet been produced, due to the complexity of implementing a Friend-to-friend computer infrastructure of personal servers to do the calculations.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/altruistic_economics (776 words)

	LiveScience.com - Altruistic Love Related to Happier Marriages
		"Altruistic love was associated with greater happiness in general and especially with more marital happiness," concludes Tom Smith of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago in a report released today.
		Among the more altruistic, 67 percent rated their own marriage as "very happy." Among those who were profiled as the least altruistic, only 50 percent said they were very happy in marriage.
		But Smith said connection between romantic love and altruistic behavior probably comes from an appreciation of love developed in a healthy marriage and reflects the connection between marriage and love in general, which is part of the teachings of many religions.
	www.livescience.com /humanbiology/060209_love_altruism.html (729 words)

	Klaus Jaffe: An economic analysis of altruism: who benefits from altruistic acts?
		Dissipative and equitative altruistic behavior was detrimental to the aggregate wealth of the group or was neutral.
		Specifically, the simulations suggest that the evolutionary emergence of altruistic acts requires the existence of social synergy or dynamic effects that augment the benefit beyond the sum of the interacting parts (Jaffe 2001).
		Altruistic behavior, given by the variable g (indicating the % of utility donated by agents or generosity of agents), did not seem to affect the results of these simulations (compare simulations with g = 0 to those with g = 50).
	jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk /5/3/3.html (4250 words)

	Biological Altruism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Altruistic behaviour is common throughout the animal kingdom, particularly in species with complex social structures.
		So the overall effect of the behaviour may be to increase the number of copies of the altruistic gene found in the next generation, and thus the incidence of the altruistic behaviour itself.
		To say that kin selection interprets altruistic behaviour as a strategy designed by ‘selfish’ genes to aid their propagation is not wrong; but it is just another way of saying that a Darwinian explanation for the evolution of altruism has been found.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/altruism-biological (5850 words)

	'Domino' transplant program makes best use of altruistic donated kidneys
		For example, in some cases, the kidney goes to the patient deemed to have the best chance for long-term survival; in others, the organ is given to the patient in greatest need or the candidate at the top of the UNOS waiting list, regardless of outcome or need.
		Altruistic donor programs have come under recent attack by critics who argue that altruistic donors may be vulnerable to coercion and have suspect motivations.
		Montgomery says altruistic donors go through the same rigorous and comprehensive psychological and social evaluation programs as any other person coming forward to be evaluated for living organ donation.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-07/jhmi-tp072706.php (560 words)

	Survey links altruism and romantic love
		Among those least likely to endorse expressions of altruistic love, 50 percent rated their marriage as "very happy," but among those most expressing altruistic love towards their partner, 67 percent say their marriage in "very happy." Also, the married are more likely to rank high on altruistic love than the unmarried.
		The connection between romantic love and altruistic behavior probably comes from an appreciation of love developed in a healthy marriage and reflects the connection between marriage and love in general which is part of the teachings of many religions, including Pope Benedict XVI's recent encyclical, Smith said.
		Feelings of altruism and altruistic behaviors have been increasing in recent years, according to the survey, which found that the traditional value of caring for others is something most Americans agree on, despite their political differences.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-02/uoc-sla020706.php (666 words)

	Global Spiral :: Article
		While altruistic love seems to exist most obviously on the parent-child or kin selective axis, we do not really know much about the neurological and endocrinological aspects of this universal form of love, and the extent to which it differs in males and females.
		Study of this would include foci on the emergence and ascent of altruistic and unlimited love to constitute goodness itself in many significant moral traditions, and on how altruism is analyzed in contemporary philosophy with regard to acceptable degrees of self-sacrifice, competing contractual theories of ethics, and moral psychology.
		Studies should be encouraged on the experiences of giving and receiving altruistic and unlimited love at all points in the human life cycle, including those aspects of each stage of the life cycle that seem to enhance or diminish growth in love.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article2.asp?ID=4223 (2421 words)

	FuturePundit: Brain Rewards For Carrying Out Altruistic Punishment
		The added twist in the latest work is that the researchers were watching the brains of the players using PET scans while the players inflicted punishments at their own expense.
		But the altruistic act is not experienced subjectivly as a loss because the brain delivers an internal reward that compensates for the loss of resources caused by paying to punish others.
		Altruistic punishment then is quite a complex behavior in terms of its effects.
	www.futurepundit.com /archives/002324.html (750 words)

	Regarding the Other: Altruistic Love as Religious Ideal and Scientific Project
		By "altruistic love," I mean a warm and abiding personal affirmation of the Other that is grounded both in emotion and in the insight that this particular Other has value, not only in their potentiality (i.e., "all people have good somewhere inside them"), but in their present, non-ideal and non-sentimentalized actuality.
		In summary, parental altruistic love and other expressions of human kin-altruism emerge from the evolutionary building blocks of human life, and with the emergence of the great world religions we see the radical expansion of this altruistic love to the "neighbor" who is everyone and anyone.
		Altruistic love stands in stark contrast to intimidation, stigmatization, invalidation, objectification, mockery, disparagement and all those elements of human experience that convey to others that their existence rests on a mistake, has no worth, and can be disregarded
	www.science-spirit.org /article_detail.php?article_id=192 (2558 words)

	Mindreading and the Cognitive Architecture of Altruistic Motivation* (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In recent attempts to characterize the cognitive mechanisms underlying altruistic motivation, one central question is the extent to which the capacity for altruism depends on the capacity for understanding other minds, or ‘mindreading’.
		The possibility that altruistic motivation derives from a distinctive basic emotion of sympathy is theoretically appealing, but it has turned out to be difficult to get unequivocal data correlating the postulated features of sympathy with altruistic behavior.
		If altruistic motivation in humans is an adaptation that depends on sophisticated mindreading abilities like perspective taking, then the altruistic motivation system must have been shaped after the evolution of our sophisticated mindreading abilities.
	www.cofc.edu /~nichols/cogaltFINAL.htm (11528 words)

	Value analysis of political behavior --- self-interested : moralistic :: altruistic : moral
		Altruistic (and moral) goals are goals for the achievement of others' goals.
		Your altruistic goals concerning X are thus a replica in you of X's goals as they are for X. Altruism may be limited to certain people or certain types of goals.
		Note that our altruistic goals concern the achievement of their goals, but we have now used this to justify moral goals, in which we endorse altruistic goals for others.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~baron/ratsymp.html (10688 words)

	Altruistic Hedonism
		On the other hand, back in his tent between crises, he is equally devoted to getting drunk, seducing women, and sharpening his irreverent wit at the expense of Frank Burns (who, in the movie version especially, is portrayed as a hypocritical Christian).
		Hawkeye is an altruistic hedonist who outdoes his fellows in both tenderhearted succor of the needy and unbridled indulgence in victimless" sins.
		It is important to point out the errors of altruistic hedonism because of the inherent attractiveness and persuasive power of its humanitarian spirit.
	www.bible-infonet.org /ff/articles/living/108_09_08.htm (1329 words)

	Altruistic Suicide
		Altruistic Suicide was the first live gigging band from HWP and it took an organic and direct approach to making industrial and rock music.
		This method of mixing sounds and genres (along with good ol' road sweat) integrated the writing, recording, and performance of the music at all levels and often surfaced on the extended sound based improvisations during live shows.
		Altruistic Suicide followed up this tape with an EP of noise collage and ambient based instrumentals titled FIST and soon had a new track on the international compilation The Art of Brutality.
	www.helpwantedproductions.com /as.htm (441 words)

	Altruists International - An Altruistic Community
		We try to ignore money but put people at the heart of what we do, concentrating on what will be of real benefit to others.
		Altruistically minded, international volunteer group that is pioneering altruism as a social norm.
		We work for free on projects to help the marginalized and to change society's focus away from money towards people.
	www.altruists.org (106 words)

	The Austringer » “Altruistic Punishment” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		on “altruistic punishment”, the irrational behavior of seeking to punish those who transgress societal “rules” where there is no benefit for the punisher.
		The ability to develop social norms that apply to large groups of genetically unrelated individuals and to enforce these norms through altruistic sanctions is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the human species.
		Altruistic punishment is probably a key element in explaining the unprecedented level of cooperation in human societies (1–3).
	www.austringer.net /wp/index.php?p=36 (494 words)

	Altruistic punishment in humans : Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These patterns of cooperation cannot be explained by the nepotistic motives associated with the evolutionary theory of kin selection and the selfish motives associated with signalling theory or the theory of reciprocal altruism.
		Here we show experimentally that the altruistic punishment of defectors is a key motive for the explanation of cooperation.
		Altruistic punishment means that individuals punish, although the punishment is costly for them and yields no material gain.
	www.nature.com /doifinder/10.1038/415137a (220 words)

	Presenter: Elliott Sober, Ph.D.
		An altruistic behavior is one that enhances the fitness of someone else (the “recipient”) at some cost in fitness to the donor.
		Darwin thought that the barbed stinger of the honeybee is an altruistic trait -- the bee disembowels itself when it stings an intruder to the nest; the stinger keeps pumping venom even after the bee has perished, thus conferring a benefit on the group.
		An altruistic concern for specific others is not the same as the acceptance of a general moral principle.
	www.altruisticlove.org /docs/sober.html (1216 words)

	Perspectives on Social Behavior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute--Site provides information about altruistic behavior and links to related sites; created by Samuel and Pearl Oliner of Humboldt State University.
		But altruistic behavior showed a different result: the only influence on altruistic behavior was found to be environmental.
		Krueger and his colleagues acknowledge that their findings are limited to the males who responded to the survey (i.e., not a representative sample), and they rely on self-report data, which may show a bias in that the respondents may not wish to reveal all their antisocial behavior, but may exaggerate their altruism.
	www.ryerson.ca /~glassman/social.html (2281 words)

	Overcoming Altruistic Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For example, all nonvalue, "liberated" approaches to sex arise from an altruistic sacrifice of the personal importance and value of sex.
		After perhaps initial increases in pleasure and "freedom", the longer-range trend for people "liberated" around such altruistic sacrifices is toward impotence and frigidity.
		Only after repudiating altruistic sacrifice can people discover their full potential for pleasure, passion, and love.
	www.neo-tech.com /advantages/advantage17.html (240 words)

	Word Spy - altruistic donor
		Altruistic organ donations like Kravinsky's are exceedingly rare.
		In the U.S. alone, more than 80,000 people are waiting for an organ (55,000 of those require a kidney), and the UNOS estimates that number could rise as high as 100,000 by the end of the decade.
		Note, too, that although the phrase altruistic donor in the sense defined above dates to 1994 (see the earliest citation, below), there's an earlier sense that refers to people who donate blood to be used by strangers (which applies to most people who give blood), which goes back to 1985.
	www.wordspy.com /words/altruisticdonor.asp (489 words)

	How Culture Induces Altruistic Behavior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These theories usually presume that altruistic behavior is controlled directly or indirectly by genes, although the notion of reciprocity is also compatible with models that rely on individual learning and cultural transmission (Axelrod 1984).
		The beneficiaries of the altruistic acts may be the people who are inducing those acts, or they may be entirely different people.
		According to the standard sociobiological definition, an act is altruistic if it increases the reproductive fitness of the recipient while reducing the reproductive fitness of the donor, where reproductive fitness is the expected number of descendants.
	www.ssc.upenn.edu /~allison/AltruCult.html (4955 words)

	Altruistic behavior studied
		The researchers used genetic tests to determine the paternity of all the lizards in each generation, and from this they could determine the "fitness" of each male in terms of the number of offspring he fathers.
		The fitness of altruistic blue males drops to nearly zero, while the protected partner is able to maintain high fitness.
		Their fitness is higher than that of altruistic males, but lower than that of the protected partner.
	currents.ucsc.edu /05-06/05-08/lizards.asp (1306 words)

	Eliminating the Altruistic Baggage
		The third altruistic element is that morality is in conflict with your life.
		The fourth altruistic element is the view that you have to balance morality with your everyday life.
		The fifth altruistic element is the view that morality is a limit on your actions.
	rebirthofreason.com /Articles/Rowlands/Eliminating_the_Altruistic_Baggage.shtml (9709 words)

	Amazon.com: altruistic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: A Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Hardcover - Oct 31, 2006)
		Living altruistic donors?(ethical aspects of living organ donation): An article from: Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association by Everett K. Spees (Jul 28, 2005)
		Altruistic Reveries:: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences by Basant K. Kapur and Kim-Chong Chong (Hardcover - Nov 29, 2001)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=altruistic&tag=icongroupinterna&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (625 words)

	Altruistic Living Donation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For directed altruistic donation, the potential donor may have some knowledge of the recipient for example through church, synagogue or mutual acquaintance.
		With non-directed altruistic donation, a donor wishes to donate a kidney to a person on the waiting list who he or she does not know.
		We consider altruistic living donation to be a very unique and special situation since there are no obvious benefits to the potential donor.
	www.sbhcs.com /services/renal/altruistic/index.html (584 words)

	Altruistic Suicide
		The melancholy of the egoist is one of incurable weariness and sad depression, and is expressed in a complete relaxation of all activity the unhappiness of the altruist, by contrast, springs from hope, faith even enthusiasm, and affirms itself in acts of extraordinary energy.
		Altruistic suicide thus reflects that crude morality which disregards the individual, while its egoistic counterpart elevates the human personality beyond collective constraints; and their differences thus correspond to those between primitive and advanced societies.
		Christians, for example, have a gloomy conception of this life combined with an aversion to suicide, a conjunction Durkheim attributed to their "moderate individualism" (cf.
	www.angelfire.com /ga4/suicideawareness/28.html (189 words)

	Life With Alacrity: Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation
		If punishment of defections was ruled out, they discovered that over the 1,000+ generations of the simulation that the rate of cooperation quickly crashes, such that at the group size of 8 a little over 50% cooperation evolved, and for groups that are larger than 16 none cooperate.
		Earlier game theory research on altruistic punishment has shown that cooperation flourishes if there is some price for punishing defectors -- if you allow punishment at no cost then cheating strategies emerge.
		Adding altruistic punishment to the simulation increased the amount of cooperation that evolved, such that groups with the size of 32 would have 50% cooperation.
	www.lifewithalacrity.com /2005/03/dunbar_altruist.html (2449 words)

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