People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds

Re:People try to do right by each other, no matter the motiv... by bonoboTP on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:58AM (#23428587)

There's tons of research on altruism, decades of debates on group selection, kin selection etc.

Nowadays it's much less of a mystery than the popular opinion thinks. I guess the popular zeitgeist is a few decades lagging behind science.

Robert Sapolsky's course on human behavior and its evolution is on YouTube and it's great. Or read books on human ethology.

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Re:People try to do right by each other, no matter the motiv... by leto_ii on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:41AM (#23429094)

I've seen him on JRE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmt_PkIfBE). I liked his observations on the baboon troupe and how changing group makeup led to a change of dynamics and the establishment of a more cooperative equilibrium.

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Re:People try to do right by each other, no matter the motiv... by yboris on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:21PM (#23430265)

Daniel Batson spent his academic life researching altruism. His work is wonderful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Batson

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Re:People try to do right by each other, no matter the motiv... by jes on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:27AM (#23428931)

I have benefitted from Dr. Sapolsky's video series as well. I recommend it to others fairly often.

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