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Altruism and aggression, biological and social origins, edited by Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, E. Mark Cummings, Ronald Iannotti

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Altruism and aggression

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

Cambridge studies in social and emotional developmentCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

biological and social origins

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. They explore the genetic underpinnings of affiliative and aggressive orientations as well as the biological correlates of these behaviors. They consider environmental variables - family patterns, child rearing 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'. The first section focuses on biological, sociobiological, and ethological approaches. It explores the utility of animal models for understanding both human and infrahuman social behavior. The second section focuses on the development, socialization, and mediation of altruism and aggression in children. Several concerns underly both sections. These include the role of attachment processes, separation distress, reciprocal interchanges, and social play in determining the quantity and quality of aggressive and affiliative interactions; the function of emotions (e.g. empathy, guilt, and anger) as instigators of altruism and aggression; and the nature of sex differences. Several chapters present data on emotions that mediate altruism and aggression and also on patterns of association between prosocial and antisocial behaviors. The authors take an ethological perspective, placing special importance on the need to explore altruism and aggression in the real lives and natural habitats of humans and other animals.--, Provided by publisher

Introduction : altruism and aggression : problems and progress in research / Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, E. Mark Cummings, and Ronald Iannotti -- The psychobiology of prosocial behaviors : separation distress, play, and altruism / Jaak Panksepp -- An evolutionary and developmental perspective on aggressive patterns / Robert B. Cairns -- Development in reciprocity through friendship / James Youniss -- The prosocial and antisocial functions of preschool aggression : an ethological study of triadic conflict among young children / F.F. Strayer and J.M. Noel -- A conception of the determinants and development of altruism and aggression : motives, the self, and the environment / Ervin Staub -- Early organization of altruism and aggression : developmental patterns and individual differences / E. Mark Cummings [and others] -- Aggression and altruism : a personality perspective / Seymour Feshbach and Norma Deitch Feshbach -- The socialization of prosocial behavior : theory and reality / Joan E. Grusec and Theodore Dix -- Social-interactional patterns in families of abused and nonabused children / John B. Reid -- Naturalistic observation of cooperation, helping, and sharing and their associations with empathy and affect / Robert F. Marcus -- Social information-processing variables in the development of aggression and altruism in children / Kenneth A. Dodge -- Conclusions : lessons from the past and a look to the future / Carolyn Zahn-Waxler

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