Healthy Selfishness and Pathological Altruism: Measuring Two Paradoxical Forms of Selfishness
Selfishness is often regarded as an undesirable or even immoral characteristic, whereas altruism is typically considered universally desirable and virtuous. However, human history as well as the works of humanistic and psychodynamic psychologists point to a more complex picture: not all selfishness...
Main Authors: | Scott Barry Kaufman, Emanuel Jauk |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01006/full |
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