Altruism and Aggression

In this timely collection, biological and behavioral scientists address questions emerging from new research about the origins and interconnections of altruism and aggression within and across species.

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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.