Altruism and morality

Definitions
1. Morality - The ability to distinct between right and wrong
2. Empathy -Ability to understand others emotions and experience emotions that match to these
  1. Emotional contagion - The tendency for two individuals to emotionally converge, via automatic mimicry
3. Compassion - Feeling and acting kindly towards another
Empathy
1. Emotional Contagion
  1. E. Palagi, A. Leone, G. Mancini and P. F. Ferrari Yawning in Gelada baboons
  2. Sympathetic concern
    1. Perspective taking
  3. Mimicry, coordination
    1. Neccesity for social living and surveil
2. Empathy as explanation for altruism
3. Not just cognitive process but also automatic
  1. Mirror neurons
4. Binti Jua case study
Morality
1. Punishment for breaking social rules in chimps
Fairness
Evolutionary necessity
1. Kin selection
2. Evolutionary stable stratergy
3. Russian doll model
4. Benefits to living in groups - Oxytocin release (Animals in translation)
  1. By product of evolution to live socially
5. Mirror neurons
Altruism
1. Sterile castes
2. Ultimate cause vs Proximate cause
3. Why learned altruism rare - future rewards to far ahead from animals conception
4. Selfish-based altruism
Humans empathy
1. Veneer theory
2. Behavioural - are morals learnt (do babies have morals)
3. Religion

Resource summary

	Created by Eva Hammond about 10 years ago