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    Personality and Individual Differences 51 (2011) 845–849 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/paid The association between self-deception and moral self-concept as functions of self-consciousness Hui Jing Lu‚ Lei Chang ⇑ Department of Educational Psychology‚ The Chinese University of Hong Kong‚ Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 27 March 2011 Received in revised form 9 July 2011 Accepted

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    Objectives • Describe different types of helping behaviour • Discuss different explanations of helping behavior: Why do we help? • Evaluate the Bystander Intervention Model Prosocial Behavior: This discusses the basics of helping behavior. Altruism is distinguished from prosocial behavior. Several theoretical perspectives on helping are considered. These include the evolutionary perspective; the socio-cultural perspective (focusing on social norms of responsibility‚ reciprocity‚ social justice);

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    “Why we do what we do??” “Manifest plainness‚ Embrace simplicity‚ Reduce selfishness‚ Have few desires….” Selfishness is Humanity‚ it is life‚ No species which is Unselfish can live. For living selfishness is necessary it is a virtue‚ The Virtue of Selfishness! Humans need a number of essentials to survive. These essentials go beyond just food‚ water‚ and shelter. They include both physical and non-physical elements needed for human growth and development‚ as well as

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    The definition of Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest‚ even in what seem to be acts of altruism. The question for are essay is do we believe psychological egoism exist or do people actually do acts of kindness with no self-interest at all. I believe that people are always motivated by self-interest. Why does someone donate toys for tots at Christmas‚ is it because they care about a child that never met before? It is possible‚ but I feel the person

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    rational people will help others if they get something in return. This idea is a voluntary co-operation‚ which applies to dealings with trade and justice. It also applies to human relationships. In developing her theory she criticized the ethics of altruism‚ which says that people should act out of selfish concern for others. Ayn Rand says in her book called "The Virtue of Selfishness" that the proper method of judging when one should help another person is by reference to one’s own rational self-interest

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    understand that satisfaction comes from working for the greater good of the family‚ the community‚ or society as a whole." The passage suggests that people satisified with egoistic behaviors today but they should have learn that the satisification of altruism is the real one and strong one. I could hardly demur the statement. Indeed‚ it is necessary and fundmental for any one to satisfy their own physical needs‚ which in Maslow hierarchy of needs a low level satisifcation. Meanwhile‚ it is worthwise to

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    Egoism and Altruism | Psychological egoism claims that whatever we do‚ we do out of self-interest. Give an example of an act you think is not done out of self-interest‚ and explain how the psychological egoist might try to interpret that act as selfish. Respond in approximately 100 words.   Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings by Day 7.  From my understanding is that nothing is done with out self-interested applied. So my example is harder to come up with now but I will

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    My experiences from volunteering and shadowing health professionals has taught me a great deal about professionalism in the field of physical therapy. At the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children‚ I had the opportunity to learn from Kelly Meyer. For one‚ Mrs. Meyer was an excellent mentor‚ and a clear and patient communicator. She used appropriate vocabulary for patients and their families to explain medical terminology in a manner they could understand. She went into sessions with a positive

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    Upon in-depth analysis‚ it becomes evident that in Flannery O’Connor’s works‚ arrogant‚ conceited‚ egotistical and overly prideful characters receive the unbearable manifestation of their own shallow‚ petty and superficial selves. O’Connor’s characters are tragically unaware of their own egoism. The characters’ excessive pride blinds them to their own flaws. When characters finally acquire some level of rationality‚ it is always at the cost of the life of someone else; hence death becomes a manifestation

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    well-known of these is that empathy serves to elicit a personal sort of understanding between individuals that promotes prosocial behaviours. It has been theorized that empathy is also necessary for social interactions due to the fact that empathy and altruism can provide information about important details to do with those people interact this. Empathy accomplishes this by allowing people to notice subtleties in presentation(Zahn-Waxler et al‚ 1984).Empathy is thought to be fundamental‚ Zahn-Waxler notes

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