Winter 2007 – “Alternatives to Self-Interest: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
Organized by Jennifer Crocker, Mary Rigdon and Stephanie Brown
The dominant motivational paradigm in the social sciences is self-interest — the assumption that humans are motivated to satisfy their own wants and needs, heedless of the needs of others or the larder good. Yet, as social scientists from many disciplines have long noted, self-interest alone cannot explain all of human behavior. Decades of research and theory have been devoted to dismantling the self-interest assumption in the social and behavioral sciences. Less research and theory has been devoted to developing alternative ways to characterize human behavior that move beyond self-interest.
Shinobu Kitayama | Heidi Keller
Independence and Interdependence: Developmental Pathways and Social Behavior
January 22, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Rowell Huesmann | Adam Grant
Beyond Self-Interest in Relationships and at Work
January 29, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Jennifer Crocker
From Egosystem to Ecosystem: Implications for Relationships, Learning, and Well-Being
February 5, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Louis A. Penner
From the Social Psychology Lab to the Pediatric Oncology Clinic: Parental Empathic Responses and Children’s Reaction to Painful Cancer Treatments
February 12, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Paul Zak
Sacrifice, Generosity, and Trust
February 19, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Stephen Post | David Sloan Wilson
Group Selection: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
March 05, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Ernst Fehr
SPECIAL TALK: Norm Enforcement Under Social Discrimination
March 8, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Lee Alan Dugatkin
Natural Selection, Kinship and Altruism: From Darwin to Hamilton
March 19, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Kyle Stanford | Peter Railton
How to be an Instrumentalist (And Why You Should)
March 26, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Stephanie Preston
Individual Differences in Empathy and Altruism for Patients: Self Report, Psychophysiology, and Brain Imaging Data
April 02, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Randolph Nesse | Peter Ubel
The Invisible Hand: The Origins of Altruism and the End of Economics
April 9, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Stephanie Brown | Michael Brown
From Selfish Genes to Selfless Behavior: An Alternative to Group Selection Accounts of Sacrifice
April 16, 2007
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
