Altruism and Aggression: Social and Biological Origins

, by Edited by Carolyn Zahn-Waxler , E. Mark Cummings , Ronald J. Iannotti

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ISBN: 9780521423670 | 0521423678
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/26/1991

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Altruism and Aggression explores the genetic underpinnings of affiliative and aggressive orientations as well as the biological correlates of these behaviors. The authors consider environmental variables--family patterns, childrearing practices--that influence prosocial and antisocial behaviors. And they examine internal processes, such as empathy, socio-inferential abilities, and cognitive attributions, that regulate 'kindness' and 'selfishness.'

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List of contributors, Editorial preface
Introduction
Part I. Biological, sociobiological, and ethological approaches to the stud of altruism and aggression: 1. The psychobiology of prosocial behaviors: separation distress, play, and altruism Jaak Panksepp
2. An evolutionary and developmental perspective on aggressive patterns Robert B. Cairns
3. Development in reciprocity through friendship James Youniss
4. The prosocial and antisocial functions of preschool aggression: an ethological study of triadic conflict among young children F. F. Strayer and J. M. Noel
Part II. Development, socialization, and mediators of altruism and aggression in children: 5. A conception of the determinants and development of altruism and aggression: motives, the self, and the environment Ervin Staub
6. Early organization of altruism and aggression: developmental patterns and individual differences E. Mark Cummings, Barbara Hollenbeck, Ronald Iannotti, Marian Radke-Yarrow, and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
7. Aggression and altruism: a personality perspective Seymour Feshbach and Norma Deitch Feshbach
8. The socialization of prosocial behavior: theory and reality Joan E. Grusec and Theodore Dix
9. Social-interactional patterns in families of abused and nonabused children John B. Reid
10. Naturalistic observation of cooperation, helping, and sharing and their associations with empathy and affect Robert F. Marcus
11. Social information-processing variables in the development of aggression and altruism in children Kenneth A. Dodge
Conclusions
Indexes.

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