Motivation, Altruism, Personality, and Social Psychology The Coming
Motivation, Altruism, Personality and Social Psychology takes up the debate around altruism and the acceptance in society that self-interest is a healthy guiding principle in life, and argues that helping behaviour can lead to self-fulfilment and happines
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Motivation, Altruism, Personality, and Social Psychology The Coming Age of Altruism Michael Babula University of Greenwich, UK
© Michael Babula 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-03128-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries
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Dedicated to my parents, Raymond S. Babula and Ann M. Babula, whose guidance put me on the path to help others.
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Contents List of Figures and Tables
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Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Part 1 Intrinsic Drive to Become Exocentric Altruists 1 An Unenlightened Developmental Psychology
3
2 Proposed Hyperbola Paradigm
14
3 Expanding the Scope of Biological Evolution
24
4 ‘The unlikely Samaritans’
35
Part 2 A Fresh Look at Pathology 5 Pathological Self-interest
59
6 Needs Frustration and the Mindset of the 9/11 Jihadists
70
7 The Special Case of Psychopathy
82
Part 3
Sequential Confirmation of the Hyperbola Paradigm
8 Post-materialist Value Change
99
9 New Challenges for the West
112
10 Political Values in a Threat Environment
118
11 The Rejection of Barabbas
129
Part 4 The Coming Age of Altruism 12 Aligning Governing Systems and Altruistic Values
143
13 Promoting Altruistic Constructivist Education
155
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14 Helping the Afflicted
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