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Empathy : a social psychological approach.
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ISBN: 0697168948 Year: 1994 Publisher: Madison (Wis.) Brown and Benchmark

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La relation d'aide : éléments de base et guide de perfectionnement
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ISBN: 2891055195 Year: 1994 Publisher: Boucherville, Québec : G. Morin,

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Altruism in later life.
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ISBN: 080392769X Year: 1994 Publisher: Beverly Hills Sage

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Beratungsgespräche : Analyse asymmetrischer Dialoge
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ISBN: 3878084617 9783878084617 Year: 1994 Volume: 61 Publisher: Tübingen Narr

The crisis of care : affirming and restoring caring practices in the helping professions
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ISBN: 0878405585 0878405992 Year: 1994 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): Georgetown university press

On understanding intervention in psychology and education.
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ISBN: 0275948889 Year: 1994 Publisher: Westport (Conn.) Praeger

Research methods in clinical and counselling psychology
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ISBN: 047196297X 047193612X Year: 1994 Publisher: Chichester Wiley

Virtuous giving : philanthropy, voluntary service, and caring
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ISBN: 9786612075902 128207590X 0253113237 058522577X 9780585225777 0253336775 9780253336774 6612075902 9781282075900 9780253113238 Year: 1994 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Philosophers have neglected philanthropy, dealing with it piecemeal or to illustrate abstract moral principles. Writing for the general reader, Mike W. Martin explores the philosophic basis of virtuous giving. After developing a unifying conception of philanthropy, Martin investigates a number of important questions. Does philanthropy express certain virtues? If so, what is their role? Is there a responsibility to engage in philanthropic activity? Do motives matter? How might philanthropy make a contribution to self-fulfillment? Martin's book will be welcome reading for anyone who has pondered what caring and giving mean for a good society. Most philanthropy occurs through participation in social activities such as donating blood, contributing to hunger relief, or volunteering in hospitals or museums. When guided by the virtues, these actions further our ideals for communities by expressing our vision of a good society. In Martin's view, these philanthropic virtues are many, among them generosity and compassion, courage and conscientiousness, faith and fairness, wisdom and moral creativity. Martin also identifies philanthropic responsibilities. Some derive from the duty of mutual aid to help people in life-threatening situations, others from the requirement of reciprocity, and still others from personal commitments to higher ideals. Most human actions have multiple motives, and philanthropy is no exception. But Martin notes that admixtures of self-interest in giving need not be objectionable and may even be desirable in strengthening our efforts to help. He acknowledges that philanthropy breeds paradoxes: in giving we receive; self-surrender to good causes is liberating; we find ourselves by losing ourselves in service to others. Though easily abused as rationalizations for exploiting people, these paradoxes contain insights into how virtuous giving can promote self-fulfillment.


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Alloparents in the Mongolian Gerbil - Impact on Long-Term Reproductive-Performance of Breeders and Opportunities for Independent Reproduction.
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Year: 1994

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The presence of alloparents in cooperatively breeding groups may enhance the reproductive performance of the breeding pair but tests of this hypothesis in mammalian cooperative breeders have typically examined short periods in the reproductive life span of breeders. The present experiment was designed to evaluate the long-term effects of the presence of alloparents on reproductive performance under laboratory conditions in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus), and to evaluate the possibility that alloparents may attempt independent reproduction during their tenure as alloparents. Pairs were established with either 0 or 4 alloparents and breeding performance was monitored over a 13.5-month period. The presence of alloparents did not enhance reproductive rates in breeding pairs, and neither enhanced nor delayed developmental rates in offspring. Variation in litter size, offspring survival, pup growth, and interbirth interval did not vary significantly as a function of the breeding females' reproductive tenure. Seven of 49 female alloparents of breeding age in family groups produced offspring. Alloparent breeding was associated with long interbirth intervals in the breeding adult female. Neonatal survival in litters born to alloparents was higher in litters that were temporally synchronized with litters produced by the older breeding female than in asynchronously produced litters. Under the conditions in this experiment, then, few indirect benefits accrue to helpers as a consequence of their alloparental effort, and immediate (the opportunity for independent reproductive attempts) and delayed (parental skills acquisition) direct benefits may account for helping behavior in this species

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