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Title Altruism and aggression : biological and social origins / edited by Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, E. Mark Cummings, Ronald Iannoti
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986

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Description xiii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in social and emotional development
Cambridge studies in social and emotional development.
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of contributors, Editorial preface; Introduction; Part I. Biological, sociobiological, and ethological approaches to the stud of altruism and aggression: 1. The psychobiology of prosocial behaviors: separation distress, play, and altruism Jaak Panksepp; 2. An evolutionary and developmental perspective on aggressive patterns Robert B. Cairns; 3. Development in reciprocity through friendship James Youniss; 4. The prosocial and antisocial functions of preschool aggression: an ethological study of triadic conflict among young children F. F. Strayer and J. M. Noel; Part II. Development, socialization, and mediators of altruism and aggression in children: 5. A conception of the determinants and development of altruism and aggression: motives, the self, and the environment Ervin Staub; 6. Early organization of altruism and aggression: developmental patterns and individual differences E. Mark Cummings, Barbara Hollenbeck, Ronald Iannotti, Marian Radke-Yarrow, and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler; 7. Aggression and altruism: a personality perspective Seymour Feshbach and Norma Deitch Feshbach; 8. The socialization of prosocial behavior: theory and reality Joan E. Grusec and Theodore Dix; 9. Social-interactional patterns in families of abused and nonabused children John B. Reid; 10. Naturalistic observation of cooperation, helping, and sharing and their associations with empathy and affect Robert F. Marcus; 11. Social information-processing variables in the development of aggression and altruism in children Kenneth A. Dodge; Conclusions; Indexes
Summary Based on a conference held at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. in April 1982, under the auspices of the Society for Research in Child Development and the Child Development Foundation
Analysis Altruism related to aggression
Man Aggression related to altruism
Notes Based on a conference held at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. in Apr. 1982, under the auspices of the Society for Research in Child Development and the Child Development Foundation
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and indexes
Subject Aggressiveness in children -- Congresses.
Aggressiveness -- Congresses.
Aggressiveness in children.
Aggressiveness.
Altruism in children -- Congresses.
Altruism in children.
Altruism -- Congresses.
Altruism.
Psychology, Comparative -- Congresses.
Psychology, Comparative.
Socialization -- Congresses.
Socialization.
Child.
Infant.
Aggression.
Altruism.
Social Behavior.
Socialization.
Genre/Form Congress.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Cummings, E. Mark.
Iannotti, Ronald.
Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn.
Foundation for Child Development.
Society for Research in Child Development.
LC no. 85017402
ISBN 0521268346
0521423678 (paperback)