Comments on: The Situation of Kindness http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/the-situation-of-kindness/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Selfishness versus Altruism « The Situationist http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/the-situation-of-kindness/#comment-25721 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:02:43 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9444#comment-25721 [...] The Situation of Kindness [...]

]]> By: The Situation of Cooperation « The Situationist http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/the-situation-of-kindness/#comment-17231 Tue, 04 May 2010 04:02:40 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9444#comment-17231 [...] review a sample of related Situationist posts, see “The Situation of Kindness,” “New Study Looks at the Roots of Empathy,” “Monkey Fairness,” “The [...]

]]> By: Michael Metzler http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/the-situation-of-kindness/#comment-15963 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:46:56 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9444#comment-15963 Daniel Dennett has an excellent discussion on this (with notes for further reading) in Chapter 7 of Freedom Evolves (2003): ‘The Evolution of Moral Agency’.

]]> By: Mike in Ohio http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/the-situation-of-kindness/#comment-15950 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:25:13 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9444#comment-15950 The little blurb about rat mothers’ attention to their children impacting their stress hormones is actually one step further than explicitly mentioned here. The licking and nurturing actually affects the gene expression of the rat babies and becomes inheritable

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/daily-observer/?p=200

]]> By: Tiffany http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/the-situation-of-kindness/#comment-15946 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:37:48 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9444#comment-15946 Wow. This is a very interesting finding. It makes me think that there is good in all people. I think that this type of conclusion has always been at the back of my mind, yet there are people who are not properly nurtured and turn out to be very selfish.

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