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The good life : wellbeing and the new science of altruism, selfishness and immorality / Graham Music.

By: Publisher: Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2014Description: xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848722262 (hbk.)
  • 1848722265 (hbk.)
  • 9781848722279 (pbk.)
  • 1848722273 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Introduction -- Primed for goodness -- Attachments and helping others -- How empathy and altruism grow -- Why stress can make us nasty -- Impulsiveness, self-regulation and aggression -- Cold aggression, callousness and psychopaths -- A battle between emotion and reason? -- Hormones of cooperation and competition -- Evolved both to cooperate and compete -- Moral games -- Group-minded and narrow-minded -- Reputations, shaming, gossip and punishment -- Consumerism, society and our divided brain -- Conclusions.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-231) and index.

Introduction -- Primed for goodness -- Attachments and helping others -- How empathy and altruism grow -- Why stress can make us nasty -- Impulsiveness, self-regulation and aggression -- Cold aggression, callousness and psychopaths -- A battle between emotion and reason? -- Hormones of cooperation and competition -- Evolved both to cooperate and compete -- Moral games -- Group-minded and narrow-minded -- Reputations, shaming, gossip and punishment -- Consumerism, society and our divided brain -- Conclusions.

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