On the Genetics of Altruism and the Counter-Hedonic Components in Human Culture.

Campbell, Donald T.

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ERIC Number: EJ072518

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Publication Date: 1972

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On the Genetics of Altruism and the Counter-Hedonic Components in Human Culture

Campbell, Donald T.

Journal of Social Issues, 28, 3, 21-37, Sum 72

Unlike the social insect, man is profoundly ambivalent in his social role: the behavioral dispositions which produce complex social interdependence and self-sacrificial altruism must be produced by culturally evolved indoctrination, which has had to counter self-serving genetic tendencies. (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Conflict, Cultural Influences, Genetics, Intergroup Relations, Prenatal Influences, Social Attitudes, Social Behavior, Socialization, Sociocultural Patterns

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