Social Benefits Of Altruism

Introduction

Altruism being the selfless concern for welfare of other people which involves doing something simply out of a desire to help, not merely because of feeling obligated to out of one’s duty, loyalty or religious traditions. “Altruism is behavior motivated by concern for others or by internalized values, goals, and self-rewards rather than by the expectation of concrete or social rewards, or the desire to avoid punishment or sanctions,” Eisenberg et al. (1999). Altruism is a desire within one organism as an end state goal (Batson, 1983). Howard and Piliavin (2000) viewed altruism as to provide benefits to its recipients in exchange of no benefits and even of incurring some cost to the actor. Our everyday life if full of some altruistic

The strength of altruistic mind varies from individual to individual. Girls are more altruistic than boys are (Anna Drebera et al). Boys’ behavioral traits are less significant than those of girls in respect to altruism. (Rashmi et al). Human capacity for altruism is limited to those whom we feel empathy (Batson and Oleson, 1991). It is not enough to state that, the students of our modern era who are being involved more in competition of scoring marks and seeking jobs are deviating from making themselves as altruistic personality. Therefore, various types of research on altruism is called for so as to know the extension of the culture of altruism in school and society and to make necessary change in behavior of students through proper implementation of curricula because in an academic environment a teacher with sound altruistic mind can transmit altruistic behaviors to his or

Their first study provided a test of three models which were hypothesized to explain the process. The results suggested that, pro-social behavior was motivated by altruism. Their second study provided the same results. Emotional reactions to the perceived distress of others were preceded by a concern for others. Together, those findings strongly supported an altruistic interpretation of pro-social behavior and suggested that the egoistic model be reformulated.

Michael and Roelofs (March 2011) made an experiment to identify heterogeneity preferences according to personality, gender, status, giving and taking for altruism. The authors found that the effect of gender on giving was more stable than previously understand and was explained collectively by various personality factors. They also found that women, high status treatment individuals, and individuals in giving language treatment gave less and were also less sensitive to the price