Moving beyond self-interest : perspectives from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and the social sciences /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Group Author: Brown, Stephanie L.; Brown, R. Michael.; Penner, Louis A., 1943-
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2012.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=76dbcf6110244e85afc90558d970d989
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxii, 297 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780199838301
Index Number: BF637
CLC: B845.6
Contents: Introduction:
Foundations of Caregiving:
How altruistic by nature? /
Adult attachment and caregiving: individual differences in providing a safe haven and secure base to others /
Mechanisms, mediators, and adaptive consequences of caregiving /
The Neuroscience of Caregiving Motivation:
The human caregiving system: a neuroscience model of compassionate motivation and behavior /
Neural circuits regulating maternal behavior: implications for understanding the neural basis of social cooperation and competition /
Neuroscience of empathic responding /
Parental and romantic attachment systems: neural circuits, genes, and experiential contributions to interpersonal engagement /
The Psychology of Caregiving Motivation:
Parental investment in caregiving relationships /
The role of empathic emotions in caregiving: caring for pediatric cancer patients /
The costs and benefits of informal caregiving /
Too close for comfort?: lessons from excesses and deficits of compassion in psychopathology /
Egosystem and ecosystem: motivational perspective on caregiving /
Implications for Economics, Political Science, and Social Policy:
A new view of utility: maximizing "optimal investment" /
Bringing neuroscience