Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2016/Extreme altruism

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Thank you, Arlo your ideas are amazing and I will definitely have a look into that. --JazNF (discuss • contribs) 07:29, 13 September 2016 (UTC) It would be interesting to consider the role that the social hormone 'Oxytocin' has on atruism behaviours. I'm not sure about extreme altruism, but there are a few articles around that providence evidence for oxytocin increasing altruism Heres one https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221873255_Oxytocin_but_not_Vasopressin_Increases_both_Parochial_and_Universal_Altruism

Oxytocin has also been found to increase in-group/out-group biases, such as in http://www.pnas.org/content/108/4/1262.full

There might be some articles around about how oxytocin determines whether someone would help anyone or only someone in their ingroup Arlo

Hi, just a minor formatting suggestion of maybe making the lines of the table visible in the What behaviour can be regarded as altruistic table just to make it easier to read?. Really interesting topic by the way --U3117592 (discuss • contribs) 04:17, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Bystander Intervention and Extreme Alturism
Hi there, Thank you! Your topic sounds very interesting too and is definitely related to what I hope to talk about in my chapter. Feel free to reference it as you like :D

Kym --U3117275 (discuss • contribs) 07:54, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi, this is a really interesting topic. Have you considered how religion facilitates altruism? Particularly, regarding Islam and the Five Pillars of Islam where one plliar Zakat is concerned with charity. You've made a good start keep going!! :) social contribution u3081127 30/09/2016 16:00

When does altruism become extreme?
Hey, so I didn't change anything on your page but I was wondering if you knew the names of the friends of Mr Thompson in your example? Perhaps you could refer to at least one of them as something other than friend, It just reads a bit weird as it is. But otherwise, your page looks great! --CeeJay95 (discuss • contribs) 22:59, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Suggestion about using a table
Hey, I was having a quick read of your chapter and it looks like it's coming along well. Just a suggestion, maybe put the "What behaviour can be regarded as altruistic?" section in a table, as it might make it clearer to read and be more visually appealing. Hope this is useful--Jbboys (discuss • contribs) 04:27, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Feedback
Hi Jasmine,

Great chapter so far! You've written a really intriguing introduction with a great opening question. I like that you've included individual differences regarding altruism motivation as well, and you also have a good variety of interactive components.

I would suggest formatting your section "what behaviour can be regarded as altruistic?" as a table just to improve its readability. Perhaps you could also talk about the negative consequences that altruism has upon people? Obviously it poses a safety risk to the altruistic person, but are there also any psychological consequences that it has upon the person?

Let me know if you have any questions! --Qt3141 (discuss • contribs) 04:40, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

I just found this article which may be helpful for exploring the negative effects of altruism :) The Bright and Dark Side of Altruism: Demographic, Personality Traits, and Disorders Associated with Altruism by Adrian Furnham, Luke Treglown, Gillian Hyde and Geoff Trickey --Qt3141 (discuss • contribs) 04:50, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

References and issue numbers
Wow - this is an impressive looking chapter (just had a quick glance and it wasn't easy to see obvious areas for improvement). But one little tip is about use of issue numbers in references - see http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/10/how-to-determine-whether-a-periodical-is-paginated-by-issue.html -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:04, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

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