(a.) Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(2) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(3) Ten of the 16 primary 16PF scores were significantly different and generally described an altruistic but assertive and venturesome propensity to manage others.
(4) Whereas some studies have shown that negative mood leads to increases in altruistic action, others have shown the reverse.
(5) A two-locus genetic model is studied in which one locus controls the tendency of individuals to act altruistically toward siblings and the other locus controls the mating habits of females.
(6) As the way to achievement, it comes into a conflict with the fear of failure, with the co-operation advantages and with the altruistic human drives.
(7) It is shown that W. D. Hamilton's condition of increases in inclusive fitness due to altruistic interactions among kin expresses the structural instability of populations against the evolution of altruistic behavior.
(8) A simple model shows that this can lead to the selection of "altruistic" traits that favor the fitness of the group over that of the individual.
(9) "It's what you do when you have money in the bank and now there is no money in the bank, that kind of pan-tolerance will contract, because it's too altruistic for hard times."
(10) Consequences include overwhelming demand for mammography; problems with optimum response by radiology; limited availability of the examination, especially to the socioeconomically disadvantaged; self-referral for mammography by unqualified physicians for less than altruistic reasons; and unrealistic expectations of mammography by women, physicians, and lawyers.
(11) In Experiment II, the combined effect of a pair of observed materials (positive or negative altruistic content) was examined.
(12) "Of the altruistic instincts, veneration is not the most developed at the present day; but I hold strongly with the statement that it is a sign of a dry age when the great men of the past are held in light esteem".
(13) Of course the motivation for visualising your energy use doesn't have to be for altruistic environmental reasons.
(14) While mental toughness, and high self-esteem and confidence may seem like a good thing, they also can have an insidious flip-side – namely, narcissistic as opposed to more altruistic, empathy driven motives that better serve the masses.
(15) What was perceived as altruistic "adoption" by the penguins was actually closer to "kidnapping", it transpired.
(16) Traditionally, Hindu religion has given sanction to certain altruistic suicides.
(17) Remember you're human after all While much of the above are technical solutions to prevent you being hacked and scammed, hacking done well is really the skill of tricking human beings, not computers, by preying on their gullibility, taking advantage of our trust, greed or altruistic impulses.
(18) Instead, the observed pattern was what would be expected if empathy evokes altruistic motivation to reduce the victim's need.
(19) Yet this restriction obviously limits the availability of already scarce donor organs, and curtails the opportunities for altruistic action on the part of those who, in any given case, are not genetically related to the recipient.
(20) It has its roots in conflicts of interest between human beings, and in their conflicting urges to behave either selfishly or altruistically.
Egoistical
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious.
(2) Results of both studies, then, suggest that the motivation to help evoked by empathy is not egoistic motivation to avoid negative social evaluation.
(3) Eight installments have now appeared in the Little Review of New York but unfortunately the Egoist (London) cannot find any printer to set up these chapters,” writes the novelist.
(4) It was further assumed that there is a behavioral tendency to reduce differences among these aspects by means of two types of behavioral principle: egoistic and contextual.
(5) He was the opposite of an egotist, being neither boastful nor conceited, but his professional personality had a streak of the kindly egoist to it.
(6) Three experiments tested whether empathy evokes egoistic motivation to share vicariously in the victim's joy at improvement (the empathic-joy hypothesis) instead of altruistic motivation to increase the victim's welfare (the empathy-altruism hypothesis).
(7) Further we learn that self-preservation cannot be an egoistical interest; it depends on the attachment to others.
(8) It was shown that subjects more dependent on alcohol are significantly less active in the role of sexual partner and in support of family, as well as are less effective in performing such roles and are more egoistic in the role of sexual partner than men less dependent on alcohol.
(9) He was an egoist who was interested in the material gains of power – the young women, the popularity and power."
(10) Two experiments contrasted predictions from the selfless and egoistic alternatives in the paradigm typically used by Batson and his associates.
(11) A phlegmatic person is characterised by a lack of egoistic or altruistic instincts while feelings of nausea or fear are increased.
(12) Mankind also grows exponentially, killing thousands of other species, poisoning the oceans and soft waters, polluting the atmosphere, all for his egoistic needs.
(13) All good knockabout stuff and the makings of a legend - irascible, menacing, self-important, egoistical.
(14) concerned with knowledge vs. feelings about the deprivation) and egoistical-fraternal (i.e.
(15) By taking into account relevant specialized literature and the results of other studies, the following general hypotheses were advanced, namely, that the communication of speech handicapped children is troubled in respect of its content and relation, and that their social behaviour shows more egoistic than cooperative features.
(16) If a player's choice depends on its own play (cooperate or defect) at the previous trial, it becomes possible for cooperative strategies to increase when rare in a population of egoists.
(17) In these conditions, through the conscious choice between the egoistic and the altruistic drives, could the growing person form the moral attitudes fitting his or her own nature.
(18) The results were interpreted as providing support for an egoistically based interpretation of helping under conditions of high empathy.
(19) An egoistic alternative account of this evidence was proposed and tested in our work.
(20) To be egoistical is to be ambitious and also indifferent to the views of others.