For centuries, the egoism-altruism debate has echoed through Western thought. Egoism says that the motivation for everything we do, including our seemingly selfless acts of care for others, is to gai
One of the "Best Books of 2011" from the Center for Optimal Adult DevelopmentWe send money to help famine victims halfway around the world. We campaign to save whales and oceans. We stay up all night
Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species. InWhat's Wrong with Morality?, C. Daniel Batson takes a
Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species. InWhat's Wrong with Morality?, C. Daniel Batson takes a
Interpersonal sensitivity refers to our ability to perceive and respond with care to the internal states of other people, understand the antecedents of those states, and predict the subsequent events
In a thoroughly revised edition of this popular text, the authors use methods of social psychology to explore the personal rather than the institutional perspective of religious experience, and to des
