Why do people act in an altruistic way? How to take a correct view of self interested and altruistic

First of all, those who help others also help themselves.

How can I say it......It is in the process of helping others that we can find our own sense of existence, and at the same time, it greatly enhances the sense of identity of others with us.

Therefore, we can gain a sense of security from the process of altruism and feel the strength of our hearts. This positive force is enough to resist most negative emotions such as low self-esteem, depression, and hopelessness. It is a good way for us to apply sunlight to ourselves and create warmth.

Second, those who are altruistic are also self-interested.

Altruism is the best way to achieve self-satisfaction and a sense of existence.

Therefore, we say that "giving" is the greatest source of happiness for us. Those who can experience this kind of happiness must be rich themselves.

Why do some people say that poverty is so despicable....Its greatest despicability is not that it makes people float in the world, but that it deprives people of the pleasure they give.

Another point is that in the process of helping others, we can understand society more thoroughly and understand the difficulties of others more deeply, so as to gain a lot of favorable insights.

A person who can "help others and benefit others" must have the ability to be happy, must be able to better appreciate the true knowledge of life, must know how to cherish the people and things around him, and must be able to bring more warmth and light to the world and himself.

There are many reasons for this, and every school of thought has its own doctrine, and each doctrine has its own opinions and evidence, and I think that since you can ask this question, it means that you are also a professional in the field, and you have been exposed to all kinds of theories, so there is no need to give you a list of them.

And if it's just academic, then obviously it needs to be argued, but if you just want to use other people's altruistic behavior to your advantage, then you might as well try out all the theories of the various schools of thought, and I recommend understanding NLP and hypnosis.

In fact, the most fundamental pleasure of helping others is also for self-interest, such as for one's own inner satisfaction, sense of importance, self-esteem, or for receiving praise or gratitude from others. There are very few people who really don't ask for anything in return, and those few people are not necessarily happy, because they violate the most basic human nature. One of human beings is self-interest.

Self-interest and altruism are clearly a contradiction. Figuring out the relationship between the two, understanding their unity and unity at the highest level, becomes a fundamental idea. Self-interest is the innate nature of human beings, and it ultimately stems from the need for survival.

But people live in groups, unilateral self-interest does not work, it is more beneficial to help each other, and helping others is to help oneself. As a result, an altruistic code of conduct in the group was born. You have to understand this sentence:

Altruism is the highest level of self-interest. ” 1.The basis for the authenticity and rationality of altruism is the universality of self-interest.

2.Altruism is the highest code of conduct in the most fundamental relationship between people and society. 3.

Altruism is the human basis of the principles of commodity economy. 4.Altruism is the process of self-interest.

5. Alism is the highest order of self-interested behavior. The way people act in self-interest can be summarized into 5 levels. The lowest level is "harming others and not benefiting oneself"; The lowest level is "harming others and benefiting oneself", which is a "bad person" as the people say; The intermediate level is the "honest person" among the people who "do not harm others but benefit themselves"; The senior is "benefiting others and self-interest", this kind of person is always seeking win-win and mutual benefit, and is the "shrewd" among people; The highest level is "benefiting others first and then self-interest", this kind of people's self-interest does not seem to be felt, in the relationship is accustomed to thinking about others, and has a certain spirit of sacrifice, can do something for others as their own responsibility, and get the natural return of happiness and satisfaction, is the long-term, stable spiritual and material benefits of the recipient, belongs to the "noble one" among people.

The motives and goals of these five types of people are the same, the difference is only the difference in the way of behavior, and the results are very different: the first two ways of behavior determine that they always backfire and eventually lose the right to live; The middle way of behavior is to clean oneself, which is destined to be difficult to achieve great things; The latter two ways of acting are bound to make a difference.

"Altruism" is a very technical word, usually in economics and psychology, altruistic behavior means more consideration of the interests of others. For example, helping people in need, donating to charity, and so on. Although, these altruistic behaviors will reduce their own interests, from an economic point of view, this is irrational decision-making; Evolutionarily speaking, this is not the choice of survival of the fittest that should exist in a competitive environment; But psychologically, it's not so difficult to understand.

Altruistic behavior has been found in brain science research, and when people are helping others, some reward areas of the brain are activated, and these brain activation patterns are similar to those when you eat a delicious piece of chocolate and get paid a lot of money.

Therefore, altruistic social behavior is actually processed into socially valuable behavior by the person itself, so the occurrence of altruistic behavior will make people have happy emotions and positive physiological reactions, so he can be retained and continued.

The above is to explain the altruism of imitation pants from the value, in fact, we can explain the altruistic behavior from the emotions in psychology. Human behavior is always expected by society or others. For example, children are expected to study well, mothers are expected to be gentle and kind, employees are expected to work well, and so on.

No matter what kind of social role they play, they will be evaluated by society and have corresponding expectations of social roles, so people will have an emotion, guilt, when their behavior does not meet the expectations of society and others.

Guilt is different from several basic emotions, it belongs to people's high-level social emotions, and this emotion is based on people's social cognition, that is to say, the first person must have the ability to expect society or the cognitive ability of others to expect themselves, and the emotions that may be generated.

Going back to altruistic behavior, the emotion of guilt is also the cause of people's altruistic behavior, and when people expect to feel guilty if they don't help others, then altruistic behavior will naturally occur.

Finally, let's talk about the role of social evaluation and the future effects of altruistic behavior.

Since altruistic behavior often outweighs the cost, bioevolutionists have begun to ask why people would help others when the gains outweigh the losses.

This is the mechanism of social reputation establishment and social evaluation. A person's behavior is not isolated, he often does something under the observation of others, then social evaluation will have a great effect on behavior, altruistic behavior will bring a good reputation to oneself to a large extent, if this speculation is true, this is actually a strategy to maximize future benefits.

Therefore, if we look at it from this point of view, people's altruism is not pure altruism, but long-term self-interest.

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Altruistic behavior is defined as behavior that is beneficial to others but not to oneself. Why do people do things, and what factors make people willing to do these things that are not obviously beneficial to themselves, are the questions to be asked this time.

Example begins. 1.At a time when the child is in some extreme danger, parents will burst out with far more strength than usual, take the specific news as an example, on November 3, 22, a driver in Yulin, Guangxi Province made a mistake in reversing, and the mother rescued the younger son and pushed the eldest son away.

The occurrence of this phenomenon is genetically determined.

2.When others need help, if Bi is in a good mood, he is more willing to help others, and when he is in a bad mood, he doesn't want to help others very much. The specific news is that in 2020, after a man in France won the lottery of 200 million euros, he said that he would invest tens of millions of euros to start a ** club to help hospitals affected by the new crown epidemic, and at the same time would buy a car for his daughter to help his relatives and friends.

3.After doing this, I was able to make one more friend, and I felt very happy after doing this, and I felt that my self-evaluation had improved, so I did it. Specifically, on October 29, 22, in Sichuan, a 27-year-old girl donated hematopoietic stem cells to a 19-year-old girl, and she felt that it was very meaningful to help others.

She felt that her self-worth had increased in this case, and the influencing factor here was social exchange.

4.This is something that society advocates and will be more willing to do. Specific news, on November 1, 22, in Pingdingshan, Hebei Province, the car transporting fruits overturned, and passers-by spontaneously helped pick it up, but no one robbed it. This is altruistic behavior that arises under the influence of social norms.

According to a survey of 50 altruistic news reports in the past six months, altruistic behaviors due to genetic determination accounted for one-twenty-fifth of the data, and one-tenth of altruistic behaviors due to mood assumptions. Altruistic behaviors due to social exchange or social norms account for 26% and 62% of the data, respectively. From the above data, it is found that altruistic behavior is more widely and frequently influenced by social norms, and the resulting altruistic behavior is the result of long-term social spiritual and civilization precipitation and accumulation, as well as the subtle cognition of personal three views.

In summary, there are four factors that contribute to altruistic behavior, namely: genetic determination, mood wisdom hypothesis, social exchange, and social norms.

Genetic determination, the help of kinship.

Mood assumptions. Whether I feel happy when I help others or not affects whether I am happy to help others or not.

Social exchange, helping others I gain things (including material non-material, good feelings, happiness, self-evaluation, etc.).

Social norms, socially sanctioned behaviors, and promoted behaviors. (One side is in trouble, and all sides support).

psychosocial ; Social; Altruism and prosociality. Altruistic behavior is the act of volunteering to help others in the expectation of no return. Unlike the act of helping others, the latter refers to all actions that benefit others and returns, including behaviors that expect returns, and their scope is greater than that of altruistic behaviors.

The theoretical explanations of altruistic behavior are: (1) Sociobiological viewpoint: any genetically high survival value, that is, a decisive trait that contributes to the continued survival of an individual, often has a tendency to be inherited to the next generation, and the theory believes that the tendency to help others has a high sustainable survival value for group genes.

2) The view of social evolution: in the historical development of human culture and civilization, human beings will selectively evolve their own skills, beliefs, and technologies; Social evolution argues that there are three norms that are important for prosocial behavior: Social Responsibility Norms:

It refers to the responsibility and obligation of people to help those who depend on them and need them. Reciprocal norms: Helping others is reciprocal, i.e., if others help me, then I should help others as well.

Social Equity Norms: Helping those who deserve it. (3) Learning Theory:

The norms of helping behaviour as children grow up are the result of learning. (4) Social exchange theory: what people do stems from their own balance of benefits and costs, and people want to get the maximum benefit and pay the least cost, and the same is true in the act of helping others.

5) Empathy and altruism: People often help others out of sheer kindness, even if doing so will cost them.

1. Kinship altruism.

Preference for genetically related members of the class.

2. Reciprocity and altruism.

1. Abide by a social rule.

2. Subtract potential discomfort.

3. The psychological satisfaction of the praise of the external society.

3. Selfless altruistic behavior.

When you are in a good mood, you are more willing to show altruism.

Bystander Effect:

The number of bystanders at the scene affects the likelihood of a prosocial response in a sudden. When the number of bystanders increases, the likelihood of any one bystander helping decreases, and even if they take a response, the reaction time is extended. The larger the crowd, the greater the external environment influences the behaviour and choices of individuals in the crowd.

As population density increases, so does the likelihood of helping others.