altruism

Nov 04, 2026

CLAIM-546: Negative frequency dependence that keeps two types in coexistence does not make their interaction cooperative: in Hawk–Dove with cost C above value V each type increases when rare and they coexist at the interior equilibrium of V/C Hawks, with Hawks still taking the whole resource from Doves, and on the Black Queen account producers of a leaked good and the cells that use it without paying coexist at a frequency set by the community's need; so whether types persist together and whether they cooperate are separate questions, and a coexistence criterion answers only the first

Nov 04, 2026

LIT-2003: Major evolutionary transitions in individuality

Nov 04, 2026

LIT-2004: The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation

Nov 04, 2026

THEORY-1351: In West, Fisher, Gardner and Kiers's account, a transition in individuality is defined by two separable conditions, mutual dependence (parts that once replicated alone can replicate only within the larger unit) and negligible within-group conflict, and proceeds by forming a cooperative group and then transforming it, with no clear border between the steps; across transitions what explains them is an ecological benefit to cooperation together with group formation that unites the members' interests (clonal bottlenecks, lifetime monogamy, vertical transmission of clonal symbionts), while kin discrimination and the repression of competition played relatively minor roles

Oct 29, 2026

CLAIM-491: No action is selfless in the sense of aiming at a good that is no self's: what is called selflessness, collectivist or altruistic, is concern for the good of a self extended to include others or a group, so collectivism is self-interest on a larger self-identity

Oct 29, 2026

CLAIM-492: If the self is defined to include whatever an agent cares about, the claim that all motivation serves the self is true by definition and rules nothing out; the thesis has content only with a criterion of the self's extent that can come apart from what the agent cares about

Oct 29, 2026

CLAIM-494: Empathic concern for another produces motivation whose ultimate goal is the other's welfare, and it does so when perceived self–other merging is controlled, so not all helping is concern for an extended self

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1683: Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1698: Team Reasoning and Intentional Cooperation for Mutual Benefit

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1699: Pair-Bonding as Inclusion of Other in the Self: A Literature Review

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1700: Is empathy-induced helping due to self–other merging?

altruism

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1703: Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1706: Close relationships as including other in the self

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1716: Legacies, Immortality, and the Future: The Psychology of Intergenerational Altruism

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1724: How Will I Be Remembered? Conserving the Environment for the Sake of One's Legacy

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1728: Reinterpreting the empathy–altruism relationship: When one into one equals oneness

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1729: Empirical Approaches to Altruism

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1735: Identity fusion: The interplay of personal and social identities in extreme group behavior

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1737: Evolution, altruism and cognitive architecture: a critique of Sober and Wilson's argument for psychological altruism

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1752: Economics and Identity

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1754: Death and the Afterlife

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1759: Surviving Death

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1760: It's Only a Matter of Time: Death, Legacies, and Intergenerational Decisions

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1766: Recategorization and Prosocial Behavior: Common In-Group Identity and a Dual Identity

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1775: Social Identity and Close Relationships: What is the Connection?

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1777: A theory of generativity and its assessment through self-report, behavioral acts, and narrative themes in autobiography

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1779: The Afterlife (Tanner Lectures I and II)

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1782: The Logic of Team Reasoning

Oct 29, 2026

LIT-1783: Empathy, Altruism, and Group Identification

Oct 29, 2026

QUESTION-299: What, if anything, do the living owe people who will live in the far future, and does that obligation rest on the good of those people, on an impersonal good, or on what the living themselves value?

Oct 29, 2026

QUESTION-300: Is any motivation aimed at another's good and at the good of no self, however far a self can extend to include others and groups?

Oct 29, 2026

QUESTION-301: Is acting for one's legacy, for how one is remembered or for people who will live after one's death, self-interest on a self extended in time, as collectivism on the owner's thesis is self-interest on a self extended across people?

Oct 16, 2026

THEORY-655: Social behaviour evolves as if each individual valued a neighbour's fitness against its own by their coefficient of relationship, and its discriminations evolve to make that coefficient determinate; so kin are favoured and strangers met with hostility, relatives fight less, and haplodiploid sisters, related by 3/4, are predisposed to worker altruism

Oct 02, 2026

LIT-469: Reasons and Persons

Oct 02, 2026

LIT-497: The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I

Oct 02, 2026

LIT-506: The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. II

Oct 02, 2026

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LIT-2003: Major evolutionary transitions in individuality

LIT-2004: The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation

CLAIM-491: No action is selfless in the sense of aiming at a good that is no self's: what is called selflessness, collectivist or altruistic, is concern for the good of a self extended to include others or a group, so collectivism is self-interest on a larger self-identity

CLAIM-492: If the self is defined to include whatever an agent cares about, the claim that all motivation serves the self is true by definition and rules nothing out; the thesis has content only with a criterion of the self's extent that can come apart from what the agent cares about

CLAIM-494: Empathic concern for another produces motivation whose ultimate goal is the other's welfare, and it does so when perceived self–other merging is controlled, so not all helping is concern for an extended self

LIT-1683: Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior

LIT-1698: Team Reasoning and Intentional Cooperation for Mutual Benefit

LIT-1699: Pair-Bonding as Inclusion of Other in the Self: A Literature Review

LIT-1700: Is empathy-induced helping due to self–other merging?

LIT-1703: Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation

LIT-1706: Close relationships as including other in the self

LIT-1716: Legacies, Immortality, and the Future: The Psychology of Intergenerational Altruism

LIT-1724: How Will I Be Remembered? Conserving the Environment for the Sake of One's Legacy

LIT-1728: Reinterpreting the empathy–altruism relationship: When one into one equals oneness

LIT-1729: Empirical Approaches to Altruism

LIT-1735: Identity fusion: The interplay of personal and social identities in extreme group behavior

LIT-1737: Evolution, altruism and cognitive architecture: a critique of Sober and Wilson's argument for psychological altruism

LIT-1752: Economics and Identity

LIT-1754: Death and the Afterlife

LIT-1759: Surviving Death

LIT-1760: It's Only a Matter of Time: Death, Legacies, and Intergenerational Decisions

LIT-1766: Recategorization and Prosocial Behavior: Common In-Group Identity and a Dual Identity

LIT-1775: Social Identity and Close Relationships: What is the Connection?

LIT-1777: A theory of generativity and its assessment through self-report, behavioral acts, and narrative themes in autobiography

LIT-1779: The Afterlife (Tanner Lectures I and II)

LIT-1782: The Logic of Team Reasoning

LIT-1783: Empathy, Altruism, and Group Identification

QUESTION-299: What, if anything, do the living owe people who will live in the far future, and does that obligation rest on the good of those people, on an impersonal good, or on what the living themselves value?

QUESTION-300: Is any motivation aimed at another's good and at the good of no self, however far a self can extend to include others and groups?

QUESTION-301: Is acting for one's legacy, for how one is remembered or for people who will live after one's death, self-interest on a self extended in time, as collectivism on the owner's thesis is self-interest on a self extended across people?

LIT-469: Reasons and Persons

LIT-497: The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I

LIT-506: The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. II

LIT-514: Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame