Glossary A
Glossary A
Altruism refers to a motive to increase another's welfare without conscious regard for one's self -interests.
Altruistic showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others;
selfless; unselfish - disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others.
Altruistic behavior refers to behavior that benefits someone other than the individual engaging in the behavior
Altruistic exhortations refers to verbal encouragement to help, comfort, share, or cooperate with others
Altruistic helping is a term used when a helper seeks to increase another’s welfare and expects nothing in return
Altruistic motivation refers to a motive for helping purely for the sake of providing benefit to another person
Altruistic personality refers to
the aspects of a person's makeup that are said to make him or her likely to help others in a wide variety of situations
the aspects of a person's makeup that are said to make him or her likely to help others in a wide variety of situations
Altruistic punishment refers to the finding that people will sometimes sacrifice their own gain for the betterment of all, by punishing people who cheat the system