Explore: Selflessness (psychology)

Behavior Genetics (2004), pp. 34, 75-84, cited in Nolan-Hoeksema, Abnormal Psychology (6th. ed.), pp. 273, McGraw Hill Education (2014). McGraw-Hill Education

The psychology of collecting is an area of study that seeks to understand the motivating factors explaining why people devote time, money, and energy making

welfare, regardless of others. Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness, and has also been contrasted (as by C. S. Lewis) with self-centeredness

people" or "somebody else". Altruism may be considered a synonym of selflessness, the opposite of self-centeredness. Altruism is an important moral value

interest to ancient, medieval, and modern philosophers. The discipline of psychology attempts to understand the short term experience of gratitude (state gratitude)

In social psychology, reciprocity is a social norm of responding to an action executed by another person with a similar or equivalent action. This typically

primarily stable. In The Psychology of Gambling (1957), Edmund Bergler considered megalomania to be a normal occurrence in the psychology of a child, a condition

Svoboda, Elizabeth (2014). What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness. Current. ISBN 978-1617230134. Wikimedia Commons has media related to

of another and is considered a highly reinforcing emotion to promote selflessness, prosocial behavior, and group emotion, whereas a lack of empathy is

Roman Catholicism. It is the moderation or mean between selfishness and selflessness — between having more and having less than one's fair share. Justice