iMarketSmart

JULY 31, 2023

Natural origins of giving: I am like them Altruism means I give away something valuable to help another. Most altruism in animals matches this model. How could natural selection lead to altruism? It helps you, but it costs me. Altruism is still costly. This opens the possibility for reciprocal altruism.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 1, 2023

The game has an unbreakable law. Without this, reciprocal altruism fails. In that case, giving would break the first law. Again, giving would break the first law. Giving would break the first law. Without this shared future, reciprocal helping disappears. Two unrelated players both face these same payoffs.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 5, 2023

Biologists model reciprocal altruism with a game.[1] But it helps the other player more than it costs. Let’s go back to the first law. In the primal game, giving has an unbreakable law: Giving must be seen by partners who are able and willing to reciprocate. Do these signal a social, helpful-reciprocity relationship?

Altruism and Helping 52

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Do lead naming gifts actually stimulate high-level philanthropy from other donors and is that what motivates HNWIs to make such charitable contributions? For donors, the personal pleasure that results from giving aid to others underscores that the charitable act is not divorced from the ego.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

Suppose a friend asks for your help. Even if you think it’s worth that much, that doesn’t help. The first law of sustainable giving in nature is this: Giving must be seen by partners who are able and willing to reciprocate. Philanthropy can help me decide. This might be helpful. Her brother runs a used car lot.

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Values Public and Nonprofit Management Altruism and Helping Psychology 89

iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

Suppose a friend asks for your help. Even if you think it’s worth that much, that doesn’t help. The first law of sustainable giving in nature is this: Giving must be seen by partners who are able and willing to reciprocate. Philanthropy can help me decide. This might be helpful. Her brother runs a used car lot.

Values 52

Values Public and Nonprofit Management Altruism and Helping Psychology 52