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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2010
      October 1986
      ISBN:
      9780511752834
      9780521423670
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511752834
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.543kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Cognition
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development
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    Subjects:
    Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Cognition
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development
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    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.

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